Heth vs Heath - What's the difference?
heth | heath |
The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
* ~1602 , William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I, scene I:
*:1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath /3. There to meet with Macbeth
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae .
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 258:
# Many of the species in the genus Erica
# Many of the species in the genus Cassiope
# Both species in the genus
# Any of the species in the genus
# Any of the species in the genus
# Any of the species in the genus
(label) Certain butterflies and moths
# The palaearctic species of Coenonympha , a genus of brush-footed butterfly
## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath
## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath
# , the heath fritillary
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As a noun heth
is the eighth letter of many semitic alphabets (phoenician, aramaic, hebrew, syriac, arabic and others).As a proper noun heath is
.heth
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Alternative forms
* * * khet * kheth * chet * cheth * hetNoun
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* (wikipedia "heth")heath
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(wikipedia heath)Noun
- There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.