hight

== English == === Alternative forms === highte === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -aɪt IPA(key): /haɪt/ Homophone: height === Etymology 1 === From Middle English highten, variant of hoten (“to name, to be named”), from Old English hātan. The stem of the word was remodelled by analogy with the simple past form hight, from Old English hēht. Cognate with Scots hecht, Dutch heten, German heißen, etc. ==== Verb ==== hight (third-person singular simple present hights, present participle highting, simple past and past participle hight) (archaic, transitive) To call, name. (archaic, copulative, with a name as complement) To be called or named. (archaic, dialectal) To command; to enjoin. ===== Usage notes ===== The word survives only in literary and dialectal use. It chiefly occurs in the past tense. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Adjective ==== hight (not comparable) (archaic) Called, named. Synonym: yclept ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === See height ==== Noun ==== hight (plural hights) Obsolete form of height. === Anagrams === thigh == Middle English == === Alternative forms === huht, hihht, hihte, hiȝte, hiht === Etymology === From Old English hyht. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /hixt/ Rhymes: -ixt === Noun === hight hopefulness, expectedness gladness, satisfaction ==== Descendants ==== English: hight (obsolete) ==== References ==== “hight, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 24 May 2018.