hight

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

chiamarsi

sinonimi

altitude

called

height

named

tall

Traduzioni

هايت

dir-se

heißen

Höhe

nennen

λέγομαι

nommer

s'appeler

heten

chamar-se

llamarse

çağrılabilir

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/haɪt/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine tedesco: 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.