An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/hin

by Friedrich Kluge

hin, adverb, ‘hence, that way,’ from Middle High German hin, hine, Old High German hina, adverb, ‘off, away’; Anglo-Saxon hina (hin- in compounds, e.g., hinsîþ, ‘departure, death’), adverb ‘away,’ allied to the pronominal stem hi- discussed under heute.