急いで行く（古語・文語）
解説 Definition
hie は古風・文語的な動詞で、「急ぐ」「急いで目的地へ行く」という意味です。hie to ...、hie home のほか、hie oneself to ... の形でも使われます。現代の日常英語では通常 hurry や go quickly を使います。
Hie is an archaic or literary verb meaning to go quickly or hurry toward a place. It is often followed by a destination, and it also occurs in the reflexive construction hie oneself, meaning to take oneself somewhere without delay.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
hie は古風な動詞で「急いで行く」。現代の日常会話では go quickly や hurry を使い、hie は文学的・歴史的な文脈で hie to the village、hie oneself home のように現れます。挨拶の hi とは綴りも品詞も異なり、語末 e を含む hie を「急ぎ足で目的地へ向かう動作」と結び付けて覚えましょう。
Remember hie as an old literary verb of movement, not as the greeting hi. Picture a character in a historical story being ordered to hie to the castle—that is, to go there quickly. Common older patterns are hie home, hie to a place, and hie oneself away. In ordinary modern English, hurry, hasten, or go quickly will usually sound more natural. The final e helps distinguish the written word from hi, while the destination that follows it signals motion. This contrast is especially useful because the supplied Japanese label and part of speech do not reflect the established archaic verb sense.
例文
Hie to the village and bring back a doctor.
村へ急いで行き、医者を連れて戻りなさい。
We must hie home before dark.
私たちは暗くなる前に急いで帰らなければなりません。
The servants were told to hie themselves to the hall.
召使いたちは広間へ急いで行くよう命じられました。
hie の類義語・関連語
hie の語源・成り立ち Etymology
hie は古英語 higian／hiegan「急ぐ」にさかのぼる古風な語です。語根には「勢いよく進む」感覚があり、「急いで行く」という意味になりました。関連語として急ぎを表す hasty や haste を結びつけると理解しやすいです。
Hie descends from Old English hīgian or hīegan, a verb meaning “to strive, exert oneself, or hasten.” It survived into later English with the sense “to hurry” or “to go quickly,” but gradually became archaic outside literary, historical, or deliberately elevated language. Although haste and hasty are useful semantic neighbors, they do not come from the same Old English verb and should not be treated as members of the same word family.
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