Description:

The term 'hiet' means to share something with someone, or an ownership stake in something. It is used as an ordinary term for sharing in daily life, and also as a term in commerce, the latter probably calqued form English.

Verb:

As a verb, 'hiet' is a ditransitive happat verb of giving, with an ergative sharer, and absolutive thing shared out, and a dative recipient of a share.

Noun:

As a noun, 'hiet' alone is usually used to refer to one's overall ownership stake in something, or portion received. A unit portion of something is sometimes called a 'hietka'. A shareholder is a 'hietkija'.

An alternative meaning is a section or tranche of something.