hiew – Old English noun declension

Noun: hiew
Gender:

Nominative

Singular	hīew
Plural	hīew

Genitive

Singular	hīewes
Plural	hīewa

Dative

Singular	hīewe
Plural	hīewum

Accusative

Singular	hīew
Plural	hīew

Sample Sentences

Early 11th c., Defensor's translation of Liber Scintillarum
...nā besēoh þū on wīfes hīw... (...do not look at a woman's appearance...)
c. 996, Ælfric's Lives of Saints
Þā ġeseah hē onġemang ōðrum twēġen ġeonge cneohtas, þæt hīe wǣron wlitiġe on hīewe and lange on wæstmum. (Then he (Trajan) spotted two boys in the crowd and noticed they were beautiful in appearance and tall in stature.)
c. 992, Ælfric, "The Epiphany of the Lord"
Eft embe ġēara ymbrynum hē wearð on his fulluhte on þysum dæġe middanġearde ġeswutelod, ðāðā sē Hālga Gāst, on culfran hīwe, uppon him ġereste, and þæs Fæder stemn of heofenum hlūde sweġde, þūs cweðende, "Þēs is mīn lēofa Sunu, þe mē wel līcað; ġehȳrað 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.")
c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Andrew the Apostle"
Ġif ðū leornian wille hū þæt ġewurðan mæġe, þonne undernim ðū leorning-cnihtes hīw, þæt þū ðās ġerȳnu leornian mæġe. (If you wish to learn how that can be, then undertake the character of a disciple (literally “of a learning-boy”), to be able to learn this mystery.)
Wonders of the East
Þǣr beoð akende ǣmættan swā miċle swā hundas. Hī habbað fēt swylċe græshoppan, hī syndon rēades hīwes ⁊ blaces. Þā ǣmettan delfað gold up of eorðan fram foran nihte ōþ þa fīftan tīd dæġes. (Ants are born there as big as dogs. They have feet like grasshoppers, and are red and black in color. The ants dig gold up from the earth from before the night until the fifth hour of the day.)

Nouns inflected like hiew

hiew,

Etymology

1. Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hiwi, from Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“shape, form, appearance, blee”), from Proto-Indo-European *kew- (“skin, complexion”).
2. 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”). See: Gothic Nouns '𐌷𐌹𐍅𐌹', Swedish Nouns 'hy'.