different between hyp vs hye

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?p/

Noun

hyp (countable and uncountable, plural hyps)

1. (informal, entertainment) hypnotism
   • 1840, Washington Irving, The Life of Oliver Goldsmith

     when a dream or the hyp has given us false terrors or imaginary pains

2. (informal, entertainment) hypnotist

3. (mathematics) hypotenuse
4. hypochondria
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Cassinus and Peter

     Heaven send thou hast not got the hyps.

   • 1922, Francis Lynde, Pirates' Hope, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, page 33:

     Guess I've got a bad case of the hyps.

Alternative forms

• hyp.

Verb

hyp (third-person singular simple present hyps, present participle hypping, simple past and past participle hypped)

1. (colloquial, dated) To make melancholy.

Anagrams

• PHY

Albanian

Alternative forms

• hip

Etymology

A variant of hip.

Verb

hyp (first-person singular past tense hypa, participle hypur)

1. I get on, ride, straddle
2. I rise, go up, climb into

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