An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/hinnen

by Friedrich Kluge

hinnen, von hinnen, adverb, from the equivalent Middle High German hinnen, Old High German hinnan, hinnân, hinnana, adverb, ‘away from here, from hence’; used in Modern High German only with the explanatory preposition Anglo-Saxon heonan, heonon, adverb, ‘from here,’ English hence (with a suffix s, whence ce). Formed from the pronominal stem hi, like dannen, von dannen, from the pronoun þa-. See hinten, hinter.