The word “heed” is very ancient, is used very rarely, is obsolete. The article will discuss the origin, meaning of the word and its use in fiction.
Origin
The word Old Russian also means the perception of this or that information, that is, taking it into account.
In the etymological dictionary of M. Fasmer, it is explained that the “heed” came from the Orthodox form of “yemo” and “yeti”, from which the Old Slavonic “have it”, “imam”, “take off”, “take”, hence “take” , “remove”, “remove” and other verbs on / -type and on / –enem.
What is a “heed”
The dictionaries provide the following explanations and interpretations of the word:
- in the dictionary Ozhegova S.I. to listen is the same as hearing or treating something with attention;
- in Dahl V.'s dictionary, it means "listening carefully, eagerly absorbing what you hear, listening, learning to hear or reading; obeying, applying instruction to the work";
- in the dictionary Efremova T.F. to heed is to listen with special attention or interest, to take into account something and follow it;
- in the Small Academic Dictionary it is to take something into account, to reckon with something;
- the following substitute words are given in the synonyms dictionary: listen, hear.
Famous phraseologisms and the use of the word in fiction
Despite the fact that the word is very ancient, it is obviously quite actively used in oral speech, there are a number of phraseological units with it, for example, “listen to the voice above, prayers, wisdom, reason, intuition”.
In addition, the word is found in fiction:
- Pushkin A.S .: “... I heeded the sky with a shudder ...”.
- Derzhavin G. R. in “Saul's Healing”: “... heed my voice.”
- Solzhenitsyn A. I. in the “Gulag Archipelago”: “... we will not pay attention at all ...”.
- Chekhov A.P. in "Drama on the Hunt": ".. I heeded the plea ..".
- Leskov N. S in "Those who sneeze the movement of water": "how he heeded it and agreed ...".
- Turgenev I. S., "Unhappy": "... listen to the voice of reason."
- Pasternak B. L. in "Tale": "... without heeding his instinct ..".