Pronounced: fih-SIP-uh-russ, adj
Notes: Interesting word that I didn’t know; I didn’t know the proper pronunciation
Yesterday’s word
The word hie means
- to go quickly; hasten
- to cause (oneself) to go quickly
First usage
Our word came into English sometime before around 900
Background / Comments
After I read the definition, I seem to remember the line something like “I guess I better hie me to <something>” — however, I might be getting it confused with the line from Hamlet: “get thee to a nunnery”. In any event, our word came from the Middle English word hien/hyen, which came from the Old English word hīgian (to strive), which is considered to be related to the Dutch word hijgen (to pant), the Greek word kíein (to go), and the Latin word ciēre (to cause to go).
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