hye
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Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]hye
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hye (comparative hyer, superlative hyest)
- Obsolete spelling of high.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I[1], published 1921:
- On th' other side in all mens open vew Duessa placed is, and on a tree Sans-foy his[*] shield is hangd with bloody hew: Both those[*] the lawrell girlonds to the victor dew. 45 VI A shrilling trompet sownded from on hye, And unto battaill bad them selves addresse: Their shining shieldes about their wrestes they tye, And burning blades about their heads do blesse, The instruments of wrath and heavinesse: 50 With greedy force each other doth assayle, And strike so fiercely, that they do impresse Deepe dinted furrowes in the battred mayle; The yron walles to ward their blowes are weak and fraile.
- 1661, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 357[2]:
- The beauty and glory of it is yn two streetes, whereof the hye street goes from est to west, having a righte goodely crosse in the middle of it, making a quadrivium, and goeth from north to south."
Verb
[edit]hye (third-person singular simple present hyes, present participle hying or hyeing, simple past and past participle hyed)
- Obsolete spelling of hie.
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Massacre at Paris[3]:
- NAVARRE. And now Navarre whilste that these broiles doe last, My opportunity may serve me fit, To steale from France, and hye me to my home.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From hyen, hien (“to go quickly”).
Noun
[edit]hye (uncountable)
Alternative forms
[edit]- hy, hygh, hyghe, hyȝ, hyȝe, hey, heye, hegh, heȝe, hij, hiy, high, highe, hiȝ, hiȝe, hih, hihe, hei, heie, heiȝ, heiȝe
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “hī(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]hye
- Alternative form of he (“he”)
Etymology 3
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]hye
- Alternative form of heo (“she”)
Etymology 4
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]hye
- Alternative form of he (“they”)
Etymology 5
[edit]Noun
[edit]hye (plural hyes)
- (Southern, South Midland, Early Middle English) Alternative form of hew
Etymology 6
[edit]Verb
[edit]hye (third-person singular simple present hyeth, present participle hyende, hyynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle hyed)
- Alternative form of hien
Etymology 7
[edit]Verb
[edit]hye (third-person singular simple present hyeth, present participle hyende, hyynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle hyed)
- Alternative form of heien
Etymology 8
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hye (comparative hyer, superlative hyest)
- Alternative form of heigh
Yola
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English hey, from Old English hīeġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hawi.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hye
- garden, field, enclosure, hay
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Barach-hye.
- Barley-field.
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 4-6:
- Yer name var zetch avancet avare ye, e'en a dicke var hye, arent whilke ye brine o'zea an ye craggès o'noghanes cazed nae balke.
- Your fame for such came before you even into this retired spot, to which neither the waters of the sea below nor the mountains above caused any impediment.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- 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 46
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