heave

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• /ˈhiːv/
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• [ˈhɪi̯v]
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• CMU ARPABET: HH IY1 V Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), from Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti, from the root *kap-. See also have. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian heffe, Dutch heffen ("to raise", "to lift"), German heben ("to raise", "to lift"), Danish hæve ("to raise", "to lift"), Albanian kap (“to grasp, seize”), Old Irish cáin (“law, tribute”), cacht (“prisoner”), Latin capiō (“to take”), Latvian kàmpt (“to seize”), Ancient Greek κάπτω (káptō, “to gulp down”), κώπη (kṓpē, “handle”)). (To lift, to raise): Compare typologically Russian поднима́ть (podnimátʹ), подня́ть (podnjátʹ) (akin to има́ть (imátʹ), име́ть (imétʹ) < Proto-Slavic *jьmati, *jьměti).

64 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Czech: zvednutí — An effort to raise something, as a weight, or oneself, or to move something heavy
• Czech: vyzdvižení — An effort to raise something, as a weight, or oneself, or to move something heavy
• Czech: zdvižení — An effort to raise something, as a weight, or oneself, or to move something heavy
• Czech: nadzvednutí — An effort to raise something, as a weight, or oneself, or to move something heavy
• Dutch: heffen — An effort to raise something, as a weight, or oneself, or to move something heavy
• Dutch: tillen — An effort to raise something, as a weight, or oneself, or to move something heavy
• Finnish: nostaminen — An effort to raise something, as a weight, or oneself, or to move something heavy
• Italian: sollevamento — An effort to raise something, as a weight, or oneself, or to move something heavy
• Old Saxon: hebbian — An effort to raise something, as a weight, or oneself, or to move something heavy
• Russian: подня́тие (podnjátije) — An effort to raise something, as a weight, or oneself, or to move something heavy
• Russian: поднима́ние (podnimánije) — An effort to raise something, as a weight, or oneself, or to move something heavy
• Swedish: hävning — An effort to raise something, as a weight, or oneself, or to move something heavy
• Bulgarian: вълнение (vǎlnenie) — a rhythmical rise and fall
• Māori: hotu — a rhythmical rise and fall
• Spanish: ondular — a rhythmical rise and fall
• Bulgarian: вдигам (vdigam) — to lift
• Czech: zvednout — to lift
• Czech: pozvednout — to lift
• Czech: zdvihnout — to lift
• Czech: nadzvednout — to lift
• Danish: hæve — to lift
• Danish: løfte — to lift
• Finnish: nostaa — to lift
• French: hisser — to lift
• German: heben — to lift
• German: hieven — to lift
• Greek: σηκώνω (sikóno) — to lift
• Korean: 오르다 (oreuda) — to lift
• Norwegian: lufte — to lift
• Norwegian: heve — to lift
• Portuguese: levantar — to lift
• Romanian: ridica — to lift
• Swedish: häva — to lift
• Swedish: lyfta — to lift
• Ukrainian: підіймати (pidijmaty) — to lift
• Ukrainian: піднімати (pidnimaty) — to lift
• Albanian: hedh — to throw
• Bulgarian: хвърлям (hvǎrljam) — to throw
• Danish: hive — to throw
• Finnish: viskoa — to throw
• German: werfen — to throw
• German: wuchten — to throw
• German: schleudern — to throw
• Norwegian: hive — to throw
• Romanian: arunca — to throw
• Romanian: zvârli — to throw
• Spanish: tirar — to throw
• Albanian: hidhe — to rise and fall
• Bulgarian: вълнувам се (vǎlnuvam se) — to rise and fall
• Bulgarian: надигам се (nadigam se) — to rise and fall
• Czech: vzdouvat se — to rise and fall
• Czech: dmout se — to rise and fall
• Czech: zvedat se a klesat — to rise and fall
• Finnish: kohoilla — to rise and fall
• Greek: ανεβοκατεβαίνω (anevokatevaíno) — to rise and fall
• Māori: hotu — to rise and fall
• Māori: hapahapai — to rise and fall
• Ukrainian: здійматися (zdijmatysja) — to rise and fall
• Bulgarian: повръщам (povrǎštam) — to retch
• Dutch: kokhalzen — to retch
• Finnish: kakoa — to retch
• Greek: ανακατεύομαι (anakatévomai) — to retch
• Spanish: basquear — to retch
• Ottoman Turkish: اوكورمك (öğürmek) — to retch