hie

• heye, high (obsolete)

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”).

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

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

     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 731548838:

     The youth, returning to his mistress, hies.

2. (reflexive, poetic) To hurry (oneself).
   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iv]:

     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.

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.

hie (uncountable)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Haste; diligence.

• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “hie”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• hei

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

1. Alternative form of hije

hioa (“to grind, sand, polish”) +‎ -e

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

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)

• (degree of sharpness): terä

• hei

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

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /i/

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• Homophones: y, hies, hient

hie f (plural hies)

1. stamping/ramming rod

• hier

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

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

• IPA^(key): /hiː/

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hie

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /hiː/

hie

1. here

   Er is fun hie.

   He is from here.

• do
• hier

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

hie

1. past of immee

hie

1. Alternative form of he (“he”)

hie

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

hie

1. Alternative form of heo (“she”)

hie

1. Alternative form of he (“they”)

hie

1. Alternative form of hyen

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

hie

1. Alternative form of hê.

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

hie

1. he

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

• “hi”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• hī, hiġ, hȳ

• IPA^(key): /xi͜yː/, [hi͜yː]

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

hīe (accusative hīe, genitive heora, dative him)

1. they

• Middle English: he
  • Yola: hi, h'

hīe

1. accusative of hēo: her

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

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

hie (oblique him)

1. he

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

hie

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

     Nich th' hie thoras o' Culpake.

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• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 18