heben

Noun

 * 1)  Ebony.

Etymology
From, (rarer ), from , , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. .

The -b- is regular in the past tense and participle. In Middle High German the paradigm was regularised by spreading -b- to the present tense; reinforced in East Central German by the local shift -v- → -b- (as in for ). The fricative is preserved in related. The original past forms, were retained until Early Modern German. The verb was then shifted to the class of etc. (Compare, which was also shifted, though to a different ablaut class.)

Verb

 * 1)  to lift; to raise
 * 2)  to heave; to hoist
 * 3)  to rise; to lift