hissen

1. (dialect)Himself.
   • 1902,Joseph Wright,The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: H-L‎^[1]:

     It 'ud be a sight better if he kept they tohissen.

   • 1893-1937,J. Keighley Snowden, "A Ghost Slayer", inA Bottomless Grave: and Other Victorian Tales of Terror

     It rade ower my father t' week afore he hengedhissen—Aw mind him t—tellin' on 't.

• Shensi,shines,hsiens,Shines,sinseh

hissen

1. third-personpluralpresentindicative ofhissar

16th century, fromMiddle Low Germanhissen, of unknown origin. Possibly the same word as Middle Low Germanhissen,hitzen,Middle Dutchhissen (modern Dutchophitsen),Old Frenchhicier, all meaning “to set hounds on”. These can be compared toProto-Germanic*hatjaną (whence High Germanhetzen), but the phonetics are highly problematic. Therefore the group is usually consideredimitative, immediately comparable toEnglishhiss.

The use for “hoisting” appears first in the mid-15th century inMiddle Dutchhîsen (cf. modernDutchhijsen) and in theMiddle English nautical interjectionhissa (cf.Scotsheeze, Englishhoise, whencehoist). The word then quickly spread to other Germanic as well as Romance languages. Such cognates includeDanishhejse,Frenchhisser,Spanishizar,Italianissare.

• IPA^(key): /hɪsən/

• Audio(Germany (Berlin)):

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hissen (weak,third-person singular presenthisst,past tensehisste,past participlegehisst,auxiliaryhaben)

1. (transitive) tohoist (a flag or sail)

• Wolfgang Pfeifer et al.,“hissen”, inEtymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (1993), digitalized version at DWDS
• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “hijsen”, inEtymologiebank, Meertens Institute

• “hissen” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “hissen” in Uni Leipzig:Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “hissen” inDuden online
• “hissen” inOpenThesaurus.de

hissen

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