Abbreviation ofArmenianհայերեն(hayeren).
hye
- (international standards)ISO 639-2/T &ISO 639-3language code forArmenian.
hye (comparativehyer,superlativehyest)
- Obsolete spelling ofhigh.
1590,Edmund Spenser,Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I[1], published1921: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 onhye, 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 thehye 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."
hye (third-person singular simple presenthyes,present participlehyingorhyeing,simple past and past participlehyed)
- Obsolete spelling ofhie.
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, andhye me to my home.
Fromhyen,hien(“to go quickly”).
hye (uncountable)
- haste,hurry
- hy,hygh,hyghe,hyȝ,hyȝe,hey,heye,hegh,heȝe,hij,hiy,high,highe,hiȝ,hiȝe,hih,hihe,hei,heie,heiȝ,heiȝe
hye
- alternative form ofhe(“he”)
hye
- alternative form ofheo(“she”)
hye
- alternative form ofhe(“they”)
hye
- (Southern, South Midland, Early Middle English)alternative form ofhew
hye
- alternative form ofhien
hye
- alternative form ofheien
hye
- alternative form ofheigh
FromMiddle Englishhey, fromOld Englishhīeġ, fromProto-West Germanic*hawi.
hye
- hay
hye
- alternative form ofhey(“field”)
1867,GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page46:
1867,CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page116, lines4-6:Yer name var zetch avancet avare ye, e'en a dicke varhye, arent whilke ye brine o'zea an ye craggès o'noghanes cazed nae balke.- Your fame for such came before you even into this retiredspot, to which neither the waters of the sea below nor the mountains above caused any impediment.
- 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, published1867,page47
