heben
Meaning
- (class-6, strong, transitive) to lift; to raise
- (class-6, strong, transitive) to heave; to hoist
- (class-6, reflexive, strong) to rise; to lift
Concepts
Synonyms
hochziehen
in die Höhe heben
upgraden
in der Höhe halten
aufwinden
höher werden
Frequency
Dialects
Basel-Landschaft
lipfe
Basel-Landschaft
ufflipfe
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈheːbən/
Etymology
From Middle High German heben, heven (rarer heffen), from Old High German heffen, heven, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan. Compare Dutch heffen, English heave, Danish hæve. Doublet of hieven and kapieren. The -b- is regular in the past tense and participle. In Middle High German the paradigm was regularised by spreading -b- to the present tense; reinforced in East Central German by the local shift -v- → -b- (as in Oben for Ofen). The fricative is preserved in related Hefe (“yeast”). The original past forms hub, gehaben were retained until Early Modern German. The verb was then shifted to the class of fliegen etc. (Compare Dutch heffen, which was also shifted, though to a different ablaut class.)
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