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hie

English

Alternative forms

• heye, high (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English hien, hyen, highen, heiȝen, hiȝen, from Old English hīgian (“to hie, hasten, strive”), from Proto-West Germanic *hīgōn, from Proto-Germanic *hīgōną (“to breathe, snort”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱēygʰ- (“swift, fierce, violent”).

Cognate with Dutch hijgen (“to pant”), German heichen (“to choke, gasp for breath”), Danish hige (“to aspire, long”), Latin cieō (“set in motion, invoke, provoke”), Ancient Greek κινέω (kinéō, “move, set in motion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: hi, Hi, high

Verb

hie (third-person singular simple present hies, present participle hying or hieing, simple past and past participle hied)

1. (intransitive, poetic) To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
2. (reflexive, poetic) To hurry (oneself).

Usage notes

Unlike most reflexive verbs, “hie” generally takes the simple object pronouns rather than the reflexive pronouns. Thus “we hied us” and “hie you,” rather than “we hied ourselves” and “hie yourself.” This peculiarity most likely arises from a sense that the poetic connotations of “hie” accord well with the archaic practice of using object pronouns with reflexive verbs.

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

hie

1. (dialect) A call to turn a horse to the left.

   Antonym: hup

   Coordinate terms: gee, haw

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “hie”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “hy, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “hie | hy, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• hei

Albanian

Noun

hie f (plural hie, definite hia, definite plural hiet)

1. alternative form of hije

Finnish

Etymology

hioa (“to grind, sand, polish”) +‎ -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhie̯ˣ/, [ˈhie̞̯(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ie
• Syllabification^(key): hie
• Hyphenation^(key): hie

Noun

hie

1. microsection (extremely thin slice of stone, metal or other hard material prepared for microscopic inspection)
2. (rare) the quality of grinding, degree of sharpness

   Kirveen terä on hyvässä hieessä.

   The blade of the ax is well ground. (i.e. sharp)

Declension

Synonyms

• (degree of sharpness): terä

Further reading

• “hie”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Anagrams

• hei

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch heie, related to the verb heien (“to drive into the ground”).

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /i/
• Homophones: y, hies, hient

Noun

hie f (plural hies)

1. stamping/ramming rod

Related terms

• hier

Further reading

• “hie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Etymology

From Middle High German hie, hī, from Old High German hie, byform of hier, from Proto-West Germanic *hēr. The form shows loss of word-final /r/ after a diphthong or long vowel, which was a Late Old High German development (cf. da, eh(e), wo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiː/

Adverb

hie

1. (dated in hie und da, otherwise archaic) alternative form of hier (“here”)

Derived terms

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German hie, from Old High German hiar, from Proto-West Germanic *hēr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiː/

Adverb

hie

1. here

Synonyms

• do
• hier

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish (du)·choaid, lenited form of du·coaid, perfect tense of téit (“to go”). Cognate with Irish chuaigh, Scottish Gaelic chaidh, and Classical Gaelic do-chuaidh.

Verb

hie

1. past of immee

Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

hie

1. alternative form of he (“he”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hie

1. (chiefly southern East Midland dialectal) alternative form of ye (“ye”)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

hie

1. alternative form of heo (“she”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

hie

1. alternative form of he (“they”)

Etymology 5

Verb

hie

1. alternative form of hyen

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

• Stem vowel: ê⁴
  • IPA^(key): /hiə/, /hiɛ/

Pronoun

hie

1. alternative form of hê

Old Dutch

Etymology

From earlier hē, from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz.

Pronoun

hie

1. he

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: hi
  • Dutch: hij, ie
  • Limburgish: hae

Further reading

• “hi”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Alternative forms

• hī, hīġ, hȳ
• ᚻᛁᚫ (hiæ) — Franks Casket

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xi͜yː/, [hi͜yː], /ˈxiː.e/, [ˈhiː.e]

Etymology 1

Reflecting an earlier regularised form of *hijai, from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hīz (“these, these ones”), masculine plural of *hiz.

Pronoun

hīe (accusative hīe, genitive heora, dative him)

1. they

Usage notes

• Metrical evidence from poetry, etymology, and the occurrence of the hīe spelling in dialects that lacked the ie/īe diphthong (which was exclusive to the Early West Saxon dialect) indicate that the īe sequence in this word was originally not a diphthong, but pronounced phonetically as two separate vowels in hiatus, as per the second pronunciation above. This is also true of a few other words, like the present subjunctive forms of the verb wesan, sīe and sīen. The sequence must have merged with the diphthong in the later stages of the West Saxon dialect, resulting in the first pronunciation above, however, as the expected outcomes of the Early West Saxon diphthong in the Late West Saxon dialect (where it monophthongised to either /i(ː)/ or /y(ː)/) are reflected in later spellings like hī and hȳ.

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: he
  • Yola: hi, h'

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hīe

1. accusative of hēo: her

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian hī. Cognates include West Frisian hy and Dutch hij.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hi/
• Hyphenation: hie
• Rhymes: -i

Pronoun

hie (oblique him)

1. he

See also

References

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “hie”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Scots

Noun

hie (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Haste; diligence.

Yola

Adjective

hie

1. alternative form of heigh

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 18

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