hiew

• hēow, hīw, hīow, hēo

From Proto-West Germanic *hiwi, from Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“shape, form, appearance, blee”), from Proto-Indo-European *kew- (“skin, complexion”).

Cognate with Bornholm Danish hy (“complexion”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍅𐌹 (hiwi, “form, appearance”), Old Norse hý (“down of birds”), Swedish hy, Sanskrit छवि (chavi, “skin, hide, beauty, splendour”).

hīew n

1. form, appearance, likeness
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Epiphany of the Lord"

     Eft embe geara ymbrynum hé wearð on his fulluhte on þysum dæge middangearde geswutelod, ðaða se Halga Gást, on culfran hīwe, uppon him gereste, and þæs Fæder stemn of heofenum hlūde swegde, þus cweðende, "Þes is min leofa Sunu, þe me wél licað; gehyrað him."

     Again, after a course of years, he was, at his baptism, manifested to the world, when the Holy Ghost, in likeness of a dove, rested upon him, and the voice of the Father sounded loudly from heaven, thus saying, "This is my beloved Son who well pleaseth me; obey him."

2. shape
3. colour

• hīewere (“hypocrite”)
• hīewian, ġehīewian (“to form, pretend”)
• hīewlēas (“formless, colourless”)
• hīewlīċ (“shapely”)

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

• blēo
• dēag