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Yes. The word hie is a Scrabble US word. The word hie is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

H4I1E1

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H4I1E1

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3 letters words from 'hie'

HIE 6 

2 letters words from 'hie'

EH 5HE 5
HI 5 

All 3 letters words made out of hie

hie ihe hei ehi ieh eih

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Definitions and meaning of hie

hie

Alternative forms

  • heye (obsolete)
  • high

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.

Translations

Noun

hie (plural hies)

  1. Haste; diligence.

Translations

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “hie”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • hei

Albanian

Noun

hie f (indefinite plural hie, definite singular 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: 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

Anagrams

  • hei

French

Etymology

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 Old High German hia, alternative form of hiar, from Proto-West Germanic *hēr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hiː/

Adverb

hie

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of hier (“here”)

Usage notes

  • The form is still used in the literary expression hie und da, alongside normal hier und da.

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

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

Descendants

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

Further reading

  • “hi”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Alternative forms

  • hī, hiġ, hȳ

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xi͜yː/, [hi͜yː]

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

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

Source: wiktionary.org
  • to hurry along.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)