Where does “heckers” come from?

heckers (English) comes from English Heck, from English Hell, from German hellen, from Middle High German hëllen, from Old High German hëllan, from Proto-Germanic hellaną, from Proto-Indo-European ḱelh₁- — to warm up, to be hot; to warm up, be hot.

heckers (English): Hell

Definitions

  1. Hell

Ancestry of “heckers”, step by step

heckers traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Heck

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishHeckA hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s
2EnglishHellAny of various places so named
3Germanhellento brighten
4Middle High Germanhëllento sound, to resound, to ring out; to echo
5Old High Germanhëllan
6Proto-Germanichellanąto resound, make a sound
7Proto-Indo-Europeanḱelh₁-to warm up, to be hot; to warm up, be hot

via English ers

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishersThird-person singular simple present indicative...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ḱelh₁-