healice
Old English
adv
Definitions
- highly, on high, to a high position or degree, greatly, extremely
- with a high quality, nobly
- elaborately, with perfect workmanship
Etymology
Affix from Old English hēah (high, deep, right, haughty, proud, high-class, illustrious, sublime, lofty, important, tall, exalted).
Origin
Old English
hēah
Gloss
high, deep, right, haughty, proud, high-class, illustrious, sublime, lofty, important, tall, exalted
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
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Kanji
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Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Yealands English
- *hauhaz Proto-Germanic
- heahencgel Old English
- heahengel Old English
- heahflod Old English
- heahfæder Old English
- heahgast Old English
- heahheall Old English
- heahlareow Old English
- heahstede Old English
- heahweg Old English
- heahþrym Old English
- hēah Old English
- hīehsta Old English
- heigh Middle English
- heighe Middle English
- high Middle English
- *hauh gmw-pro