different between hye vs hyte

English

Adjective

hye (comparative hyer, superlative hyest)

1. Obsolete spelling of high

Verb

hye (third-person singular simple present hyes, present participle hying or hyeing, simple past and past participle hyed)

1. Obsolete spelling of hie

Anagrams

• Hey, Yeh, hey, yeh

Middle English

Etymology 1

From hyen, hien (“to go quickly”).

Noun

hye (uncountable)

1. haste, hurry

Alternative forms

• hy, hygh, hyghe, hy?, hy?e, hey, heye, hegh, he?e, hij, hiy, high, highe, hi?, hi?e, hih, hihe, hei, heie, hei?, hei?e

Descendants

• English: hie
• Scots: hy

References

• “h?(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hye

1. Alternative form of he (“he”)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

hye

1. Alternative form of heo (“she”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

hye

1. Alternative form of he (“they”)

Etymology 5

Noun

hye (plural hyes)

1. (Southern, South Midland, Early Middle English) Alternative form of hew

Etymology 6

Verb

hye (third-person singular simple present hyeth, present participle hyynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle hyed)

1. Alternative form of hien

Etymology 7

Verb

hye (third-person singular simple present hyeth, present participle hyynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle hyed)

1. Alternative form of heien

Etymology 8

Adjective

hye (comparative hyer, superlative hyest)

1. Alternative form of heigh

Yola

Alternative forms

• hey

Etymology

From Middle English hey, from Old English h?e?, from Proto-West Germanic *hawi.

Noun

hye

1. a garden, field, enclosure, hay

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , 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, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From archaic Scots

Adjective

hyte (comparative more hyte, superlative most hyte)

1. (obsolete, Scotland) insane or mad

References

• Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997
• Enhanced North American Benchmark LEexicon (ENABLE2K)

Anagrams

• they, thye, ythe