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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "heftig" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "heftig" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.
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as an adjectiv it can be postive right?
You mean in the colloquial way? Yeah, but it expresses astonishment. Similar to “krass”. You’d not use “heftig” if you just want to call something “really cool”.
Cool, yeah, the context was colloquial.