hight

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To call, name.
2. (archaic, copulative) To be called or named.
3. (archaic, dialectal) To command; to enjoin.

Adj

Called, named.

Noun

Obsolete form of height.

Conceptos

llamarse

Sinónimos

altitude

called

height

named

tall

Traducciones

هايت

dir-se

heißen

Höhe

nennen

λέγομαι

nommer

s'appeler

chiamarsi

heten

chamar-se

çağrılabilir

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/haɪt/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con alemán: heißen

In summary

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.