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Where does “hie” come from?

hie (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic hīz — nominative plural masculine of *hiz; these, these...

hie (Old English): they

Definitions

  1. they

Ancestry of “hie”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*hiʀ—
2Proto-Germanichīznominative plural masculine of *hiz; these, these...

Words derived from “hie”

  • ho
  • whoa
  • hos
  • video ho
  • hoes
  • hi
  • heo
  • ho
  • hoe
  • hi
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