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hissen

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English

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Pronoun

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hissen

  1. (dialect) Himself.

Anagrams

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Catalan

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Verb

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hissen

  1. third-person plural present indicative of hissar

German

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Etymology

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16th century, from Middle Low German hissen, of unknown origin. Possibly the same word as Middle Low German hissen, hitzen, Middle Dutch hissen (modern Dutch ophitsen), Old French hicier, all meaning “to set hounds on”. These can be compared to Proto-Germanic *hatjaną (whence High German hetzen), but the phonetics are highly problematic. Therefore the group is usually considered imitative, immediately comparable to English hiss.

The use for “hoisting” appears first in the mid-15th century in Middle Dutch hîsen (cf. modern Dutch hijsen) and in the Middle English nautical interjection hissa (cf. Scots heeze, English hoise, whence hoist). The word then quickly spread to other Germanic as well as Romance languages. Such cognates include Danish hejse, French hisser, Spanish izar, Italian issare.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

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

Conjugation

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References

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  • Wolfgang Pfeifer et al., “hissen”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (1993), digitalized version at DWDS
  • van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “hijsen”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Further reading

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  • “hissen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German)
  • “hissen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “hissen” in Duden online
  • “hissen” in OpenThesaurus.de

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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Verbal noun of hisse (“to excite, incite; stir up”).

The verb hisse represents a merger of two historically distinct verbs, one derived from Middle Low German hissen (“to urge on, incite”), also hessen and hitzen, from Middle High German hetzen (“to chase, pursue; drive on”), and the other from German hitzen (“to heat, heat up”), from Hitze (“heat”).

Compare Danish hidsen (“incitement, excitation”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /²hɪsːən/, [ˈhɪ̂sːə̌n]
  • Rhymes: -ɪsːən
  • Hyphenation: his‧sen

Noun

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hissen m

  1. (literary) the act of inciting or agitating someone or oneself; incitement, agitation
    Hissen av folkestemningen førte til stadig sterkere reaksjoner. ― The stirring-up of public sentiment led to increasingly strong reactions.
    • 1836 December 15, Henrik Wergeland, Samlede Skrifter, volume VI,1, page 562:
      der hjælper hverken Bøn, Courage eller Hidsen
      Neither prayer, courage, nor agitation is of any help.

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhɪsːən/, [ˈhɪ̀sːə̌n]
  • Rhymes: -ɪsːən
  • Hyphenation: hiss‧en

Noun

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hissen m

  1. definite singular of hiss (“B-sharp”)

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /²hɪsːən/, [ˈhɪ̂sːə̌n]
  • Rhymes: -ɪsːən
  • Hyphenation: his‧sen

Noun

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hissen m

  1. (dialectal) definite singular of hisse (“rye brome”)

References

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Swedish

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Noun

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hissen

  1. definite singular of hiss