hight

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

Called, named.

Verb

1. (obsolete) simple past of hote
2. To call, name.
3. To be called or named.
4. To command; to enjoin.

Noun

Obsolete form of height.

Sinonieme

altitude

called

height

named

tall

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/haɪt/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English hight (“to be named, be called”) (alternative past participle of hoten, see also hote), from Old English hēht (“was named, was called”, preterite of hātan), from *hehait-, reduplicate preterite base of Proto-West Germanic *haitan, from Proto-Germanic *haitaną (“to call, command, summon”). Akin to German heißen.