heigh

== English == === Alternative forms === hey, hi hegh, hech (Scotland) === Etymology === Inherited from Middle English heigh, hey, hay, hei, heh, probably of imitative origin. Compare hey, eh. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /heɪ/ Rhymes: -eɪ === Interjection === heigh An exclamation designed to call attention, give encouragement, etc. ==== Derived terms ==== heigh-day heigh-ho == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === From Old English hēah, hēh, from Proto-West Germanic *hauh (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”). ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): (early) /heːx/ [heːç], /hejx/ [heiç], (later) /hiːx/ [hiːç] ==== Adjective ==== heigh (plural and weak singular heye, comparative heigher or herre, superlative heighest or hext) high ===== Alternative forms ===== heighe, heiȝ, heiȝe, heiȝh, heih, hei, heie, heij, hegh, heghe, heg, hege, heȝ, heȝe, heȝhe, heh, hehe, hehȝe, egh, eȝe, he, high, highe, hiȝ, hiȝe, hih, hihe, hiegh, hieȝ, hieȝe, iȝe, hi, hie, hij, heygh, heyghe, heyȝ, heyȝe, heyh, hey, heye, hygh, hyghe, hyȝ, hyȝe, hyh, hyhe, hyeȝ, yȝe, hy, hye heah, heahe, heahȝæ, heaȝe, heaȝæ, hæh, hæhȝe, hæge, hæȝe, hah, hage, haihe, aȝe, haie, haye (Early Middle English) ===== Derived terms ===== a-high heighte hyghnesse ===== Descendants ===== English: high, heigh (dialectal), hi (informal) Sranan Tongo: hei → German: high → Polish: haj Scots: heich Yola: heigh, heighe, heegh, hia, hie ==== References ==== “heigh, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. === Etymology 2 === ==== Interjection ==== heigh alternative form of hey (“hey”) === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== heigh alternative form of hey (“hay”) === Etymology 4 === ==== Verb ==== heigh alternative form of hien (“to go quickly”) == Yola == === Alternative forms === heighe, heegh, hia, hie === Etymology === From Middle English highe, from Old English hēh, from Proto-West Germanic *hauh. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /hiːx/, /hiː/ Homophones: hea, hi === Adjective === heigh high ==== Derived terms ==== a heighe === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 45