heke

Kikuyu

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /hɛ̀kɛ́ꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)
  • (Limuru) IPA(key): /hɛ̀kɛ́/
As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), itumbĩ (pl. matumbĩ), kĩeha, kĩng'ang'i, mũhikania, mũhũmũ, mũkanda, mbica, nduka, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, tombo, and so on.[1]

Noun

heke class 9/10 (plural heke)

  1. testicle
    Synonyms: ndendera, nyee

See also

References
  1. Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
  • “heke” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 146. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *seke (compare with Tongan heke (“slippery, to slide”); Tahitian heʻe and paheʻe (“to slide”); South Marquesan heʻe and North Marquesan heke; South Marquesan tiheʻe and North Marquesan tiheke; Hawaiian heʻe (“to melt, to flow”))[1][2] Doublet of hekeheke.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈheke/

Verb

heke

  1. to descend, to fall
  2. to ebb
  3. to drip
  4. to surf
    Synonym: eke
  5. to raft
    Synonym: eke

Noun

heke

  1. descent
  2. rafting, rafter
    Synonym: eke
  3. surfing
    Synonym: eke
  • hekeheke
  • paheke

References
  1. Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 60-1
  2. Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “seke.1a”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online‎

Further reading
  • “heke” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Rapa Nui
Te heke.

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *feke. Cognates include Hawaiian heʻe and Maori wheke.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈhe.ke/
  • Hyphenation: he‧ke

Noun

heke

  1. octopus

References
  • “heke”, in Diccionario etimológico Rapanui-Español, Valparaíso: Comisión para la Estructuración de la Lengua Rapanui, 2000, →ISBN
  • Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎, Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 424

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish jeque, from Old Spanish xeque, from Andalusian Arabic شَيْخ‎ (šéḵ), from Arabic شَيْخ‎ (šayḵ, “an elder in charge”). Doublet of siyak.

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: he‧ke
  • IPA(key): /ˈheke/, [ˈhɛ.xɛ]

Noun

heke (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜃᜒ)

  1. (Islam) Moorish sheik
    Synonym: (obsolete) siyak

Further reading
  • “heke”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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