hye

English

Adjective

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

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

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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

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Yola

Noun

hye

1. hay

References

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)