heita

heita

1. (South Africa, informal) hello; hi
   • 2008, Ben Trovato, Ben Trovato's Art of Survival (page 51)

     I can hear the conversation: "Heita, bra. Let's go. We don't need bullets."

• Theia

• IPA^(key): [ˈhaita]

From Old Norse heita (“to heat”).

heita

1. to heat ^syn.

• (heat ^def.): hita, verma

From Old Norse heita (“to call”).

heita

1. (kvæði) to beg, to ask ^syn.
2. (biblical) to promise ^syn.

• (beg, ask ^def.): biðja
• (promise ^def.): lova

heita

1. (archaic, poetic) to call ^syn.

• (call ^def.): eita

From Old Norse heita, from Proto-Germanic *haitaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈheiːta/
• Rhymes: -eiːta

heita (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative hét, third-person plural past indicative hétu, supine heitið)

1. to be called, to be named
   • Revelation 6-11 (English and Icelandic)

     Og ég sá, og sjá: Bleikur hestur, og sá er á honum sat, hann hét Dauði, og Hel var í för með honum. Þeim var gefið vald yfir fjórða hluta jarðarinnar, til þess að deyða með sverði, með hungri og drepsótt og láta menn farast fyrir villidýrum jarðarinnar.

     I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

   Ég heiti Baldur.

   My name is Baldur.

2. to promise

   Ég heiti þér því.

   I promise it to you.

• (to be called, to be named): nefnast
• (to promise): lofa

• heite

From Old Norse heita, from Proto-Germanic *haitaną.

• IPA^(key): /²hæɪtɑ/ (example of pronunciation)

heita (present tense heiter, past tense heitte or het, past participle heitt, present participle heitande, imperative heit)

1. (intransitive) to be called or named; have a name

   Kva heiter du?

   What is your name?

• hete (Bokmål)

• “heita” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• hæita (Old East Norse)
• haita (Old Gutnish)

From Proto-Germanic *haitaną, from Proto-Indo-European *key(w)-, *kyew- (“to set in motion”). Cognate with Old English hātan, Old Saxon hētan, Old High German heizzan, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (haitan).

heita (singular past indicative hét, plural past indicative hétu, past participle heitinn)

1. (intransitive) to be called, to be named

   Ek heiti Anna. ― My name is Anna.

2. (transitive, with dative) to promise

In the sense of being called something, baring a particular name, the inflectional endings in the present tense singular indicative, follow a weak inflection pattern, and not the strong one; so that it is Ek heiti Anna, and not Ek heit Anna.

For all other senses of the word, all inflectional endings are as expected.

• heita in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

heita

1. abessive of hö