adv.
'from here' (Modern English )
PGmc Ancestor
*xin- or *xið-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
heðan ‘hence; henceforth’
(ONP heðan (adv.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Far heðan(i), hiðan, Icel héðan, Norw hedan, Dan heden, Sw hädan
OE Cognate
?heonan 'hence, away'
Phonological and morphological markers
[dissimilation of ON */nan/ > /ðan/] (may not be applicable)
Summary category
B1c
MED has only two further attestations, both N/EM (Orrm and Ancrene Wisse MS T).
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
WA 734
MED hēthen-ward (adv.), OED hethen (adv.), Dance heþen, Bj. 163, 176, de Vries heðan, Mag. héðan, Torp NnEO hedan, Falk-Torp heden, Nielsen heden (II), Hellquist hädan, AEW hiona(n), -ane