Word Origin Summary

Heben is attested in Middle High German. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• höoban

  Cimbrian · inherited from

• hiewen

  Luxembourgish · inherited from

• הייבן

  YID · inherited from

• heva

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• heben

  German · inherited from

• heve

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root