英和和英

形容詞

hye (comparative hyer, superlative hyest)

1. Obsolete spelling of high.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I‎, published 1921:

     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 on hye, 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:

     The beauty and glory of it is yn two streetes, whereof the hye 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."

語源 1

From hyen, hien (“to go quickly”).