hither

Etymology

From Old English hider, from Proto-Germanic *hidrê. Cognate with Latin citer.

adv

1. (literary or archaic) To this place, to here.
   He went hither and thither.
   But the road left the river again; there were certainly twistings and turnings, as the old woman had said, for at one moment it wound hither and the next thither, and at some places it was almost imperceptible. 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 280
2. over here

adj

1. (archaic) On this side; the nearer.
   The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil. 1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, Chatto & Windus, page 30