hean – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of hean

Adjective: hean

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore hean
Superlativemost hean

Sample Sentences

Etymology

1. From Middle English hene, from Old English hēan (“lowly, despised, poor, mean, bare, abject”), from Proto-Germanic *hauniz (“low, lowly”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaw- (“to degrade, humiliate”).
2. Cognate with German höhn (“jeering, demeaning, bad”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌽𐍃 (hauns, “contemptible, base, humble”), Dutch hoon (“scorn, insult”), Latvian kauns (“shame, disgrace, dishonour”), Ancient Greek καυνός (kaunós, “bad”). See: Gothic Adjectives '𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌽𐍃'.