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.
   • 1605, “Rest Sweet Nymphs”, Francis Pilkington (music):

     Hath pleased you, and eased you, and sweet slumber seized you. And now to bed I hie.

   • 1717, William Congreve, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Laurence Eusden, John Ozell, “Book X”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:

     The youth, returning to his mistress, hies.

2. (reflexive, poetic) To hurry (oneself).
   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     My husband hies him home.

   • 1906, O. Henry, A Cosmopolite in a Café:

     Some have conjectured hastily that all Southerners in town hie themselves to cafés at nightfall.

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

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “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 Craigie, A J Aitken , editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “hie | hy, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: 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/,
• Rhymes: -ie
• Syllabification^(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]‎ (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/

• Audio

  (file)

• 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 , 2012.

German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiː/

• Audio

  (file)

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

   Er is fun hie.

   He is from 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

Declension

Descendants

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

Further reading

• “hi”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xi͜yː/,

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

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.
   • a. 1500, “The Taill of Rauf Coilyear”, in David Laing, editor, Select Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland, Edinburgh: Balfour and Clarke, published 1822, page 44:

     Of his harnes in hy, he hynt withoutin hone / And in ane Rob him arrayit richeſt of ane

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1513, Virgil, translated by Gavin Douglas, edited by John Small, Aeneid [The Bukes of Eneados of the Famose Poete Virgill], Edinburgh: William Paterson, published 1874, pages 87–88:

     With thir wourdis he answerd me in hy: / The latter day is cumin of Dardanis end, / The fatale tyme quam na waling ma mend;

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1572, Robert Sempill, “The Lamentatioun of Lady Scotland, &c.”, in The Sempill Ballates, Edinburgh: Thomas George Stevenson, published 1872, page 170:

     Quhilk quhen thay saw, with speid thay ran in hy, […]

     Which when they saw, wih speed they ran in haste

   • a. 1597, Alexander Montgomery, edited by David Irving, The Poems of Alexander Montgomery, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co., published 1821, page 168:

     The quhilk but dowt wil be my deid / In hy, / For every man obtenis remeid, / Bot I.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Yola

Adjective

hie

1. Alternative form of heigh
   • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 18:

     Nich th' hie thoras o' Culpake.

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