heo

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• IPA^(key): /ˈhe.o/, [ˈhɛ.jo]

heo

1. (stative) proud, haughty

• haʻaheo (causative)
• heheo (“swagger”, verb)

• heo in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

heo

1. h-prothesized form of eo

From Old English hēo, hīe. Probably a doublet of sche; see that entry for more.

• he, hie, hi, hye, hy, hoe, ho, hue, hu, hw, ȝeo, ȝe, ȝhe, ȝoe, ȝo, ȝho, yhe, yo, yio, ge, ghe, ha, a

heo (accusative his, heo, genitive hire, possessive determiner hires)

2. Third-person singular feminine nominative pronoun: she
3. Third-person singular feminine accusative pronoun: her
4. It; used also of inanimate objects

• “he, pron.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

heo

1. alternative form of he (“he”)

heo

1. alternative form of he (“they”)

• hæo — Anglian
• hiu, hia, hīo

From Proto-West Germanic *hiju, from Proto-Germanic *hijō f (“this, this one”).

• IPA^(key): /xe͜oː/, [he͜oː]

hēo f (accusative hīe, genitive hire, dative hire)

1. she
   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 20:15

     Hēo wēnde þæt hit sē wyrtweard wǣre.

     She thought it was the gardener.

   • c. 996, Ælfric's Lives of Saints

     Þā hēo þis ġehīerde, þā smearcode hēo wiþ his weardes.

     When she heard this, she smiled in his direction.

2. it (when the thing being referred to is grammatically feminine)
   • early 8th century, Beowulf, line 455

     Gǣþ ā wyrd swā hēo sċeal.

     Fate goes always as it must.

   • c. 992, Ælfric, "St. Benedict, Abbot"

     Sē Dēofol wearp ānne stān tō þǣre bellan þæt hēo eall tōsprang.

     The Devil threw a rock at the bell so it broke into pieces.

   • The Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn

     Sēo sunne biþ swā rēad on ǣfen for þon þe hēo lōcaþ ufan on helle.

     The sun is so red in the evening because it looks down on hell.

• Middle English: ȝho, hyo, hye, scho, hoo, sche
  • English: she (dialectal hoo, shoo)
  • Scots: she, sho

heo

1. coral stone

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hɛw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [hɛw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [hɛw˧˧]

(classifier con) heo • (㺧)

1. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) a pig (mammal of genus Sus)

• (pig): lợn (northern Vietnam); cúi (archaic)

heo

1. (card games) a two