hye

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Translingual[edit]

Symbol[edit]

hye

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/T & ISO 639-3 language code for Armenian.

English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

hye (comparative hyer, superlative hyest)

  1. Obsolete spelling of high
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I[1], 1921 ed. edition:
      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)

  1. 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)

  1. haste, hurry
Alternative forms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • English: hie
  • Scots: hy

References[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

hye

  1. Alternative form of he (he)

Etymology 3[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

hye

  1. Alternative form of heo (she)

Etymology 4[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

hye

  1. Alternative form of he (they)

Etymology 5[edit]

Noun[edit]

hye (plural hyes)

  1. (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)

  1. 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)

  1. Alternative form of heien

Etymology 8[edit]

Adjective[edit]

hye (comparative hyer, superlative hyest)

  1. Alternative form of heigh

Yola[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English hey, from Old English hīeġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hawi.

Noun[edit]

hye

  1. garden, field, enclosure, hay
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Chourch hey; Barach-hye.
      Church yard; Barley-field.

References[edit]

  • 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 46