on high

Meaning

Prepositional phrase

• To a high position; or up in, or to, the sky; above.
• Up in, or to, Heaven.
• In authority, influence, or power.

Origin

• From Middle English on heigh, on an heigh, from Old English on hēagum; hēagum is an inflected form of hēah, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kewk-. The English word is equivalent to on + high. Compare Dutch omhoog, West Frisian omheech.