heon

Hungarian

Etymology

From the he variant of the obsolete or dialectal hiu (emptiness) + -n.[1] Compare csupán (only), pusztán (barely).[1] First attested c. 1195.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhɛon]
  • Hyphenation: he‧on

Adverb

heon (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) only, solely

Synonyms

References

  1. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN

Middle English

Pronoun

heon

  1. Alternative form of hem

References

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