for some time, for a while now

keeping several jobs / double-duty

facing / opposite

a surname

熱い: (of an object or feeling) hot / 熱い: (of one's body temperature) hot, feverish / 熱い: ardent, enthusiastic, impassionate / 熱い: (of love between a couple) passionate / 暑い: (of weather) hot, baking

厚い: thick / 厚い, 篤い: hearty, sincere, warm / 篤い: (of sickness) serious

忠厚: a male given name

Ka-ending dialect form of あつい (atsui, “hot”)

rumor

river source, headstream, headwaters / source of something such as a civilization or culture