hiwian

• hīƿian – wynn spelling

From hīw +‎ -ian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxiː.wi.ɑn/, [ˈhiː.wi.ɑn]

hīwian

1. to form, fashion, shape, transform

   Ealle ðe hīwiaþ hī wiðūtan mid ēawfæstum þēawum and wiðinnan sind geǣttrode mid ārlēasnysse

   All who fashion themselves outwardly with pious manners and inwardly are poisoned with impiety

   Ðū hēowodest mē

   Thou shaped me

2. to feign, to pretend (+ reflexive)

   Ðū hīwast swilce ðū ðīnum cildum hit sparige

   You pretend as if you are saving it for your children

   Herodes hīwode hine sylfne unrōtne

   Herod feigned himself troubled

• behīwian
• ġeedhīwian (“to reform, conform”)
• ġehīwian
• oferhīwian (“transfigure”)
• twihīwian (“dissimulate”)

• Middle English: heuen
  • English: hue
  • Scots: hew, hu, hue

From *hīw +‎ -ian, found in compound hīwcund. From Proto-Germanic *hīwą, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to be lying down”). More at hewe, hind and hird.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxiː.wi.ɑn/, [ˈhiː.wi.ɑn]

hīwian

1. to marry

   Hie forbīodaþ mannum ðæt hie hīwien

   They forbid the people that they marry

• hīrēd/hīrǣden
• hīwa
• hīġa
• ġehīwian