English

Proper noun

Hi

1. A male given name, a short form of Hiram

English

Alternative forms

• heigh

Interjection

hi

1. A friendly, informal, casual greeting said when meeting someone.

   Hi, how are you?‎

   I just dropped by to say “hi”.‎

2. An exclamation to call attention.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.

Synonyms

• (friendly informal greeting): hello

Translations

Adjective

hi

1. Informal spelling of high, often hyphenated.

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Derived terms

• hi-tech
• hi-lo
• hi-fi
• hi-five

Related terms

• lo
• mid

Noun

hi ‎(plural his)

1. The word "hi" used as a greeting.

   I didn't even get a hi.

Synonyms

• greeting, hello

Anagrams

• IH

Albanian

Etymology

Tosk form of Gheg hî (pl. hin), from Proto-Albanian *skina, from *skines, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱenHis (compare Latin cinis ‘dust; cinder’, Ancient Greek κόνις ‎(kónis) ‘ashes; dust’).

Noun

hi m (-ri)

1. ashes

Basque

Pronoun

hi

1. you (singular, familiar)

Breton

Pronoun

hi

1. she

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Catalan y, i, hic, from Latin hīc ‎(“here”) and ibī ‎(“there”).

Pronoun

hi ‎(enclitic and proclitic)

1. represents a place associated with the action described by the verb, unless the place would be introduced by the preposition de
2. there (in constructions such as "there is", "there are", etc.: see haver-hi)
3. replaces an adverb (or adverbial phrase) describing the manner, instrument or association of an action
4. replaces a phrase introduced by any preposition except de (most commonly a or en)
5. replaces an indefinite noun or an adjective which is the predicate of a verb other than ésser, esdevenir, estar or semblar
6. (Central Catalan) in combination with other object pronouns, the third-person singular indirect object pronoun ("to him", "to her", "to it")

Usage notes

• When more than one object pronoun is associated with a given verb, hi is alway the last in the group.
• Hi and ho cannot be used together with the same verb, nor can two his be used together.
• It is sometimes stated that hi is never used to replace a compliment beginning with de. This is not completely accurate, as hi can replace adverbial phrases such as de pressa, de sobte, etc.

Declension

Derived terms

• (Proclitic contractions): l'hi, m'hi, n'hi, s'hi, t'hi
• (Enclitic contractions): -ens-hi, -l'hi, -la-hi, -les-hi, -los-hi, 'ls-hi, -m'hi, -n'hi, 'ns-hi, -s'hi, -t'hi, -us-hi, -vos-hi

See also

• en pron
• ho pron

Cornish

Pronoun

hi

1. she (third-person feminine singular personal pronoun).

Noun

hi

1. Aspirate mutation of ki.

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i

Etymology 1

From Norwegian hi, from Old Norse hið.

Noun

hi n (singular definite hiet, plural indefinite hier)

1. hibernation

Inflection

Synonyms

• vinterhi

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeia for laughter or giggling.

Interjection

hi

1. ha (representation of laughter)

Fasu

Noun

hị

1. (Namumi) Synonym of he

References

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67

Japanese

Romanization

hi

1. rōmaji reading of ひ
2. rōmaji reading of ヒ

Latin

Pronoun

hī

1. nominative masculine plural of hic

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic هِيَ ‎(hiya)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iː/

Pronoun

hi

1. she

Inflection

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch hīe, from Proto-Germanic *hiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiː/

Pronoun

hi m

1. he

Declension

Descendants

• Dutch: hij

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

• Possibly: IPA^(key): /hiː/
• Certainly: Stem vowel: ê⁴
  • IPA^(key): /hiɛ/, /hiə/

Pronoun

hî

1. Alternative form of hê.

North Frisian

Pronoun

hi

1. he

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiː/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse híð and híði.

Noun

hi n ‎(definite singular hiet, indefinite plural hi, definite plural hia)

1. lair (of an animal)

   Bjørnen har gått i hi for vinteren.

   The bears have entered their lairs for the winter.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hi

1. feminine singular of hin

Etymology 3

Interjection

hi

1. hee; expression of snickering

References

• “hi” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Pronoun

hi

1. he

Old Irish

Preposition

hi

1. Alternative form of i
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7^d10

     Corrop inonn cretem bes hi far cridiu ⁊ a n-as·beraid hó bélib.

     So that the belief which is in your heart and what ye utter with your lips may be the same.

Pali

Alternative forms

Conjunction

hi

1. for, because

Adverb

hi

1. indeed, certainly

References

• Robert Cæsar Childers (1875), A Dictionary of the Pali Language, London: Trübner & Co.

• hi in Pali Text Society (1921–1925), Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead. (licensed under CC-BY-NC)

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sī (compare Old Irish sí).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiː/

Pronoun

hi

1. she, her