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  • //heɪ//

An exclamation to get attention.

interjection

  1. 1

    familierAn exclamation to get attention.

    Hey, look at this!

    Hey! Listen!

  2. 2

    familierA protest or reprimand.

    Hey! Stop that!

  3. 3

    familierAn expression of surprise.

    Hey! This is new!

  4. 4

    familierAn informal greeting, similar to hi.

    Hey! How's it going?

  5. 5

    familierA request for repetition or explanation; an expression of confusion.

    Hey? How's that?

  6. 6

    familierUsed as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said.

    "Who 's a cur - now - hey?"

  7. 7

    familierA meaningless beat marker or extra, filler syllable in song lyrics.

    The chorus is "nana na na, nana na na hey hey hey, goodbye".

Étymologie

From Middle English hey, hei, also without h- in ey, from Old English *hē, ēa (interjection), attested as first element in hēlā, ēalā (“O!, alas!, oh!, lo!”). Cognate with Dutch hé, hei (“hi, hey”), German hei (“hey, wow”), Danish and Swedish hej (“hello, hey”), Faroese hey (“hey, hello”), Old Norse, Icelandic and Norwegian hei (“hey”), Polish hej (“hey, hello”), Romanian hei, Russian эй (ej, “hey”); see heigh. Probably a natural expression, as may be inferred from its presence with similar meaning in many other unrelated languages: for example, Burmese ဟေး (he:), Finnish hei, Unami hè, and Mandarin 哎 (āi), and various sound-alikes as Ancient Greek εἶα (eîa) and Latin eia, eho, Sanskrit हे (he). See also hello.

verbe

  1. 1

    familierTo greet with a "hey"

nom

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    familierA choreographic figure in which three or more dancers weave between one another, passing by left and right shoulder alternately.

Étymologie

From French haie (“hedge”), with reference to the weaving patterns used in hedgelaying. Doublet of hedge and quay.

nom

  1. 1

    Variante de hefamilierAlternative spelling of he (“Hebrew letter”).

Étymologie

See he.

Formes

pluriel
heys
passé
heyed
participe passé
heyed
participe présent
heying
3ᵉ personne du singulier
heys
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).