hye

Translingual

Symbol

hye

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

English

Adjective

hye (comparative hyer, superlative hyest)

1. 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

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

• Hey, Yeh, hey, yeh

Middle English

Etymology 1

From hyen, hien (“to go quickly”).

Noun

hye (uncountable)

1. haste, hurry

Alternative forms

• hy, hygh, hyghe, hyȝ, hyȝe, hey, heye, hegh, heȝe, hij, hiy, high, highe, hiȝ, hiȝe, hih, hihe, hei, heie, heiȝ, heiȝe

Descendants

• English: hie
• Scots: hy

References

• “hī(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hye

1. Alternative form of he (“he”)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

hye

1. Alternative form of heo (“she”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

hye

1. Alternative form of he (“they”)

Etymology 5

Noun

hye (plural hyes)

1. (Southern, South Midland, Early Middle English) Alternative form of hew

Etymology 6

Verb

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

Verb

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

Adjective

hye (comparative hyer, superlative hyest)

1. Alternative form of heigh

Yola

Alternative forms

• hey

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiː/
• Homophones: ha, hea, hi, heigh

Noun

hye

1. 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

• barach-hye
• chourch-hey

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 46