hie
/haɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
A call to turn a horse to the left.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "At break of morn she hies to yonder abbey"
- "My husband hies him home."
- "Some have conjectured hastily that all Southerners in town hie themselves to cafés at nightfall."
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: hien, hīgian, *hīgōn, *hīgōną, *ḱēygʰ-