heppen

== English == === Etymology === Compare Old English ġehæp (“fit”), Icelandic heppinn (“lucky”) lucky, English happy. === Adjective === heppen (comparative heppener or more heppen, superlative heppenest or most heppen) (obsolete, Yorkshire, southwest Lincolnshire) Neat, fit, or comfortable. [17th–19th c.] ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “heppen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. “Heppen”, in Holderness and the Holdernessians. A Few Notes on the History, Topography, Dialect, Manners and Customs of the District, Trübner & Company, 1878, pages 50-51 Robert E. G. Cole (1886), “HEPPEN, adj.”, in A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe), Trübner & Co., page 64 Joseph Wright (1898), “HEPPEN, adj.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary, page 143, column 1 Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (2011), Words We Don't Use (Much Anymore): The Meaning of Words And Where They Come From, Gill & Macmillan, page 175 == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Norse heppinn, compare Icelandic heppinn and Faroese heppin. Before Aasen, attested in Norwegian by Christen Jensøn (1646), Jonas Ramus (1698), Pontoppidan (1749), Søren Richart Hagerup (1770-s) and others. === Adjective === heppen (neuter heppe, definite singular and plural hepne, comparative heppnare, indefinite superlative heppnast, definite superlative heppnaste) about a person who got sudden luck === See also === griseflaks === References === “heppen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. Torleiv Hannaas (1915), Ældre norske Sprogminder : Christen Jensøns Den Norske Dictionarium (in Norwegian Nynorsk), page 33 Erik Pontoppidan (1749), Glossarium Norvagicum (in Danish)