Hye vs Aye - What's the difference?
hye | aye |
* {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed.
, passage=On th' other side in all mens open vew Duessa placed is, and on a tree Sans-foy his[*] shield is hangd with bloody hew: Both those[*] the lawrell girlonds to the victor dew. 45 VI A shrilling trompet sownded from on hye , And unto battaill bad them selves addresse: Their shining shieldes about their wrestes they tye, And burning blades about their heads do blesse, The instruments of wrath and heavinesse: 50 With greedy force each other doth assayle, And strike so fiercely, that they do impresse Deepe dinted furrowes in the battred mayle; The yron walles to ward their blowes are weak and fraile. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1661, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 357, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The beauty and glory of it is yn two streetes, whereof the hye street goes from est to west, having a righte goodely crosse in the middle of it, making a quadrivium, and goeth from north to south." }}
* {{quote-book, year=1594, author=Christopher Marlowe, title=Massacre at Paris, chapter=, edition=
, passage=NAVARRE. And now Navarre whilste that these broiles doe last, My opportunity may serve me fit, To steale from France, and hye me to my home. }}
(archaic) ever, always
yes; yea; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question.
An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative.
As an adjective hye
is .As a verb hye
is .As a noun aye is
broadness of fabric.hye
English
Adjective
(er)citation
citation
Verb
(hy)citation
aye
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) aye, ai, agg, from (etyl) ei, ey, from (etyl) ).Adverb
(-)Quotations
* (English Citations of "aye")References
Etymology 2
Probably from use of aye as expression of agreement, or from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* ayInterjection
(en interjection)Usage notes
It is much used in , North Wales, (viva voce) voting in legislative bodies, etc., or in nautical contexts.Synonyms
* yes * yeaAntonyms
* nay * noReferences
* * *Noun
(en noun)- "To call for the ayes''' and nays;" "The '''ayes have it."