heth

See also: Heth and heth.

English

Alternative forms

chet, cheth, ḥet, ẖet, hheth, het, khet, kheth

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɛθ

Noun

heth (plural heths)

The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Translations

Semitic letter

Catalan: het (ca) f
Finnish: het (fi)
French: hèt (fr) m, cheth (fr) m, het (fr) m, heth (fr) m
German: Chet n, Cheth n
Hebrew: חי״ת \ חֵית f (khet)
Yiddish: חית m or f (khes)

See also

Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

Further reading

heth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

From Hebrew חֵי״ת (ḥēṯ).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɛt/
Rhymes: -ɛt
Hyphenation: hèth

Noun

heth m (invariable)

heth, specifically:
1. the name of the Phoenician-script letter 𐤇
2. the name of the Hebrew-script letter ח

Middle English

Noun

heth

Alternative form of heeth

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