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hight en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /haɪt/
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Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. (archaic, not-comparable) Called, named.
   • […]there dwelt in a city of the cities of China a man which was a tailor, withal a pauper, and he had one son, Alaeddin hight. 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 514”, in Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

Forms

Synonyms

yclept

Translations (2)

ru называ́емый (called, named) · ru имену́емый (called, named)

hight en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /haɪt/
• (US) audio

Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. (archaic, transitive) To call, name.
   • “Lord,” said Sir Launcelot, “I am hight Launcelot, and am surnamed ‘He of the Lake.’” 1905, Howard Pyle, “The Story of Launcelot”, in The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 66:
   • Childe Harold was he hight. 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza III:
   • He that made loue vnto the eldeſt Dame, Was hight Sir Huddibras, an hardy man[…] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene, page 209:
   • King Arthur's court was hight Camelot.
2. (archaic, copulative, with a name as complement) To be called or named.
   • Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight. c. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The faithful Lover declareth his Pains and his uncertain Joys, and with only Hope recomforteth somewhat his woful Heart:
   • I hight Sir Galahad.
   • There did I ſee that low ſpirited Swaine […] which as I remember, hight Coſtard […] c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
   • In all the worlde one onely face of nature did abide, which Chaos hight 1567, Ovid, The.xv.Bookes of P. Ouidius Naſo, entytuled Metamorphoſis, tranſlated oute of Latin into Engliſh meeter, by Arthur Golding, Gentleman:
3. (archaic, dialectal) To command; to enjoin.
   • Malaise priest of Innishmurry / Hights me go, and I obey. 1872, John Stuart Blackie, Lays of the Highlands and Islands:

Forms

Deriveds

behight

Translations (50)

nn heita (be called) · fr se nommer (be called) · pl nazywać się (be called) · km ឈ្មោះ (be called) · ja ...という (be called) · fa گفته شدن (be called) · tr çağrılabilir (be called) · es llamarse (be called) · be называ́цца (be called) · sh zvati (be called) · uk назива́тися (be called) · sk volať sa (be called) · sh звати (be called) · is heita (be called) · de sich nennen (be called) · ang hātan (be called) · ko ...(이)라고 부르다 (be called) · da hedde (be called) · fo eita (be called) · sv heta (be called) · ja ...と申す (be called) · fi kutsutaan (be called) · pl zwać się (be called) · got 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (be called) · cs jmenovat se (be called) · eo nomiĝi (be called) · mk се ви́ка (be called) · cmn 叫 (be called) · nb hete (be called) · my ခေါ် (be called) · ru именова́ться (be called) · th ชื่อ (be called) · nl heten (be called) · ja ...と言う (be called) · gl chamarse (be called) · pt chamar-se (be called) · it chiamarsi (be called) · ru называ́ться (be called) · bg нари́чам се (be called) · de heißen (be called) · fr s'appeler (be called) · vi được gọi là (be called) · vo panemön (be called) · lo ຊື່ (be called) · sl imenovati se (be called) · cmn 稱為 /称为 (be called) · ca dir-se (be called) · el λέγομαι (be called) · bg ка́звам се (be called) · non heita (be called)

hight en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /haɪt/
• (US) audio

Etymology

See height

Meanings

1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of height.
   alt of height
   • High thron'd above all hights 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
2. (alt-of, misspelling) Misspelling of height
   alt of height

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