— sigher , n.
/suy/ , v.i.
1. to let out one's breath audibly, as from sorrow, weariness, or relief.
2. to yearn or long; pine.
3. to make a sound suggesting a sigh: sighing wind.
v.t.
4. to express or utter with a sigh.
5. to lament with sighing.
n.
6. the act or sound of sighing.
[ 1250-1300; (v.) ME sighen, back formation from sihte sighed, past tense of ME siken, sichen, OE sican to sigh; (n.) ME, deriv. of the v. ]