hissen

hissen

1. (dialectal) Himself.
   • It 'ud be a sight better if he kept they to hissen. The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: H-L
   • It rade ower my father t' week afore he henged hissen—Aw mind him t—tellin' on 't. A Bottomless Grave: and Other Victorian Tales of Terror

• Shensi, Shines, hsiens, shines

hissen

1. third-person plural present indicative form of hissar

From Middle Low German *hīsen, hissen, hiscen, hitzen. The same in Dutch hijsen, Middle English hissa! (a cry used by sailors in pulling or hauling; > English heeze), Middle High German hetzen (“to rush, drive, hunt”). Further origin uncertain, but possibly related to Proto-Germanic *hatjaną (“to hunt down, pursue, persecute, attack”). Or, possibly imitative.

Compare also English hoise, hoist, Danish hejse and hisse, Norwegian heise, French hisser, Italian issare (all borrowed from either Dutch or Low German).

• IPA^(key): /hɪsən/

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hissen (third-person singular simple present hisst, past tense hisste, past participle gehisst, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive, a flag or sail) to hoist

• hissen in Duden online

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

hissen

1. definite singular of hiss