hissen

hissen

1. (dialect) Himself.
   • 1902, Joseph Wright, 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 'ud be a sight better if he kept they to hissen.

   • 1893-1937, J. Keighley Snowden, "A Ghost Slayer", in A Bottomless Grave: and Other Victorian Tales of Terror

     It rade ower my father t' week afore he henged hissen—Aw mind him t—tellin' on 't.

• Shensi, Shines, hsiens, shines

hissen

1. third-person plural present indicative form of hissar

Borrowed 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-West Germanic *hattjan, from 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, Sicilian jisari (all borrowed from either Dutch or Low German).

• IPA^(key): /hɪsən/

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

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

• Swedish: hissa
  • → Finnish: hiissata, hiisata (dialectal)

• 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” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “hissen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “hissen” in Duden online
• “hissen” in OpenThesaurus.de

hissen

1. definite singular of hiss.