hye
Translingual
Symbol
hye
- (international standards) ISO 639-2/T & ISO 639-3 language code for Armenian.
English
Adjective
hye (comparative hyer, superlative hyest)
- Obsolete spelling of high
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, 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:
- 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."
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Verb
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:
- 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.
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Anagrams
- Hey, Yeh, hey, yeh
Middle English
Etymology 1
From hyen, hien (“to go quickly”).
Noun
hye (uncountable)
- 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.
Pronoun
hye
- Alternative form of he (“he”)
Pronoun
hye
- Alternative form of heo (“she”)
Pronoun
hye
- Alternative form of he (“they”)
Noun
hye (plural hyes)
- (Southern, South Midland, Early Middle English) Alternative form of hew
Verb
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
Verb
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
Adjective
hye (comparative hyer, superlative hyest)
- Alternative form of heigh
Yola
Alternative forms
- hey
Etymology
From Middle English hey, from Old English hīeġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hawi.
Noun
hye
- garden, field, enclosure, hay
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Chourch hey; Barach-hye.
- Church yard; Barley-field.
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References
- 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