bight

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow
2. An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf.
3. A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
4. A curve in a rope.

Verb

To arrange or fasten (a rope) in bights.

Conceptes

badia

baia

cala

Sinònims

bay

cove

inlet

gulf

sound

🔉

creek

embayment

fjord

mesh

becket

loop

➿

noose

notch

picture window

plain

plain stitch

slaughter

snare

springe

engpass

eyesplice

inside loop

knit stitch

knitting stitch

angle

single stitch

berry

bottleneck

cringle

estuary

eye

👁️

fake

glade

grommet

grummet

knit

Traduccions

baie

Bucht

baai

baia

baía

bocht

koy

ensenada

kreek

κόλπος

bahía

κολπίσκος

körfez

golfo

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/baɪt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: bight

Heretat de anglès antic: byht

Cognat amb escocès: bicht

Cognat amb neerlandès: bocht

Cognat amb baix alemany: Bucht

Cognat amb alemany: Bucht

Cognat amb danès: bugt

Cognat amb islandès: bugða

Cognat amb albanès: butë

In summary

From Middle English bight, biȝt, byȝt (also bought, bowght, bouȝt; see bought), from Old English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”).
Cognate with Scots bicht (“bight”), Dutch bocht (“bend, curve”), Low German Bucht (“bend, bay”), German Bucht (“bay, bight”), Danish bugt (“bay”), Icelandic bugða (“curve”), Albanian butë (“soft, flabby”).