Where does “heng” come from?
heng (English) comes from English H, from Japanese H, from Japanese エッチ, from English aitch, from Middle English ache, from Old French ache, from Latin apium, from Latin Apis — the god Apis.
heng (English): The character ꜧ, combining an h and an eng, which...
Definitions
- The character ꜧ, combining an h and an eng, which...
Ancestry of “heng”, step by step
heng traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English H
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | H | Abbreviation of hits; Abbreviation of heroin;... |
| 2 | Japanese | H | Alternative form of エッチ |
| 3 | Japanese | エッチ | Alternative form of エイチ; dirty; lewd; perverted;... |
| 4 | English | aitch | The name of the Latin-script letter H |
| 5 | Middle English | ache | Aching; long-lasting hurting or injury; A plant... |
| 6 | Old French | ache | — |
| 7 | Latin | apium | parsley; celery; genitive plural of apis |
| 8 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 10 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 11 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |
via English eng
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | eng | Narrow; Roman alphabet ŋ: The Latin-based letter... |
| 2 | Dutch | eng | narrow; small; scary, creepy |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | enge | narrow, confined |
| 4 | Old Dutch | engi | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *angī | narrow |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | anguz | narrow, tight |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂énǵʰus | narrow, tight |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂enǵʰ- | to constrict, tighten, compress; narrow, tight;... |