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hie

verb
/haɪ/

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”).

  1. derived from *ḱēygʰ-✻ — “swift, fierce, violent”
  2. inherited from *hīgōną✻ — “to breathe, snort”
  3. inherited from *hīgōn✻
  4. inherited from hīgian — “to hie, hasten, strive”
  5. inherited from hien

Definitions

  1. To hasten

    To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.

    • But after her lover Amyntas hied.
    • Hath pleased you, and eased you, and sweet slumber seized you. And now to bed I hie.
    • The youth, returning to his mistress, hies.

  2. To hurry (oneself).

    • My husband hies him home.
    • Some have conjectured hastily that all Southerners in town hie themselves to cafés at nightfall.

  3. To urge (a horse) to the left with a cry of "hie".

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A call to turn a horse to the left.

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Derived

overhie

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hie. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA