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hie

Meaninghasten

Common meaning: hurry or go quickly

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√KI‘excite, stir, rouse, sharpen’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 70, p. 732 · scan
  2. Old Englishhigian‘hasten’sourceB&T
  3. Middle Englishhien‘hasten’source
  4. Englishmeaning shiftshasten → hurry or go quicklyhie‘hurry or go quickly’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Old English higian ‘hasten’.

Roots

  • higian Old English “hasten”

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