## AI Etymology
hie comes from Old English hīgian ('to strive, hasten, exert oneself'), of uncertain further origin, possibly related to Middle Dutch hîen. The history explains the modern form through the named earlier word or formation, without requiring a separate speculative ancestry. The etymology remains cautious where the history is cautious: comparisons, echoic formation, or disputed derivation do not make the ancestry more definite than the forms actually named. In present English, the verb sense is "to go quickly; to hasten (archaic or literary)", so the historical development ends in a clearly identifiable modern dictionary use. Its semantic neighborhood includes hasten, hurry, rush, and speed, which helps locate the modern sense without adding a separate etymological claim. The named historical forms include Old English hīgian.

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