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hekte

Pronunciation: /²hɛk.tə/

“hekte” is a Norwegian Nynorsk word. Its 9 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a small hook used to secure with an eyelet or similar, in order fasten clothing
  2. the hook and eyelet together; a hook and eye
  3. a state of health and wealth; (one's) senses
  4. roof battens
  5. used in the fixed expression på hekta (“barely”)

verb

  1. to hook
  2. to attach, bind
  3. to catch, arrest, incarcerate
  4. to hook, make addicted

Etymology

From Middle Low German hechte, of the verb hechten. The idiomatic sense is a semantic loan from Danish archaic hægter (“money, riches”). See more at Etymology 2.

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