different between aright vs eright

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /???a?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English ari?t, ariht, from Old English ?riht (“aright, properly”), from earlier *an riht, on riht (“rightly”), corresponding to a- +? right.

Adverb

aright (comparative more aright, superlative most aright)

1. Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
   • 1818: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, chapter 24.

     Hear him not; call on the names of William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth, my father, and of the wretched Victor, and thrust your sword into his heart. I will hover near and direct the steel aright.
2. (archaic) To or on the right-hand side.
   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     Once more away! and now
     The long descent is seen,
     A long, long, narrow path.
     Ice rocks aright, and hills of snow,
     Aleft the giddy precipice.

Etymology 2

From Middle English arighten, arihten (“to raise up”); and Middle English iri?ten, irihten, ?erihten (“to make right, correct, erect”), from Old English ?erihtan (“to set right”), equivalent to a- +? right.

Verb

aright (third-person singular simple present arights, present participle arighting, simple past and past participle arighted)

1. (transitive) To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.

Related terms

• eright

References

• aright in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Hartig, TIGHAR, graith

English

Etymology

From Middle English *irihten, *?erihten, from Middle English irihte, ?erihte (“right”), from Old English ?erihte (“right, due, justice; religious rite, office”); or perhaps an alteration of aright (“to make right, put to rights, treat properly”), from Middle English arihten (“to raise up”). More at right.

Verb

eright (third-person singular simple present erights, present participle erighting, simple past and past participle erighted)

1. (transitive) To invest with a right.
   • 1908 (original 1556), John Heywood, John Stephen Farmer, The spider and the fly:

     To possession here any fly erighting, Then, without more words by mouth or enditing.

Anagrams

• reight, righte