different between dight vs hight

English

Etymology

From Middle English dighten, dihten, (also dyten, from whence dite), from Old English dihtan, dihtian (“to set in order; dispose; arrange; appoint; direct; compose”), from Proto-Germanic *diht?n? (“to compose; invent”), of disputed origin. Possibly from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *d?kan? (“to arrange; create; perform”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ey?-, *d?ey??- (“to knead; shape; mold; build”), influenced by Latin dict?re; or perhaps from Latin dict?re (“to dictate”) itself. See dictate; and also parallel formations in German dichten, Dutch dichten, Swedish dikta.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /da?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [d??t]
• Rhymes: -a?t

Verb

dight (third-person singular simple present dights, present participle dighting, simple past and past participle dight or dighted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To deal with, handle.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
   • 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Manciple's Prologue:

     Ne telleth nevere no man in youre lyf

     How that another man hath dight his wyf;

3. (obsolete, transitive) To dispose, put (in a given state or condition).
4. (obsolete, transitive) To compose, make.
   • 14^thc., Anonymous, The Chester Mystery Plays, Noah's Flood:

     Japhet's Wife: And I will gather chippes here / To make a fyer for you in feare, / And for to dighte your dinnere / Agayne you come in.

5. (archaic, transitive, of facial features) To be formed or composed (of).
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     […] nor is there found, in sea or on land, a sweeter or pleasanter of gifts than she; for she is prime in comeliness and seemlihead of face and symmetrical shape of perfect grace; her check is ruddy dight, her brow flower white, her teeth gem-bright, her eyes blackest black and whitest white, her hips of heavy weight, her waist slight and her favour exquisite.

6. (archaic, transitive) To furnish, equip.
7. (archaic, transitive) To dress, array; to adorn.
8. (archaic, transitive) To make ready, prepare.

Synonyms

• (to have sexual intercourse): bed, feague, lie with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
• (to furnish): apparel, fit out, kit out
• (to dress, array, adorn): clothe, don, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe

Derived terms

• dighter
• adight
• bedight
• benedight
• misdight
• maledight
• overdight

Adjective

dight

1. (obsolete) Disposed; adorned.

Adverb

dight

1. (obsolete) Finely.

   Synonym: dightly

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English dighten, from Old English dihtan, from Proto-Germanic *diht?n?.

Verb

dight

1. adorned, dressed

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• highte

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?t
• IPA^(key): /ha?t/
• Homophone: height

Etymology 1

From Middle English hight (“to be named, be called”) (alternative past participle of hoten, see also hote), from Old English h?ht (“was named, was called”, preterite of h?tan), from *hehait-, reduplicate preterite base of Proto-Germanic *haitan? (“to call, command, summon”).

Verb

hight (no third-person singular simple present, no present participle, simple past and past participle hight)hight is only the preterite or past participle, not the infinitive or present.

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of hote
2. (archaic, transitive) To call, name.
3. (archaic, intransitive) To be called or named.
4. (archaic, dialectal) To command; to enjoin.

Usage notes

• The verb hight has many different forms in many different regions. For the present tense the form het is rather common. The usage example for the sense "to command or to enjoin" can be rendered in standard English in the following manner:

• I hight ye take me wi' ye. I ne can no lenger her b'live = I bid you take me with you. I can no longer stay here.

• Moreover, in the sense "to enjoin", the word is mainly used for emphasis, and as such is untranslatable into standard English. For example: I het ye leit mee men ga. 'Ey ne dyde nathing te na ane. 'Ey ar wyteless. (Please, let my men go. They did not do anything to any one. They are blameless).
• The word survives only as part of the oral tradition in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is no longer used in common speech.

Translations

Adjective

hight (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Called, named.

   Synonym: yclept

   • 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 514:

     […] 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.

Translations

Etymology 2

See height

Noun

hight (plural hights)

1. Obsolete form of height.

Anagrams

• thigh

Middle English

Alternative forms

• huht, hihht, hihte, hi?te, hiht

Etymology

From Old English hyht

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hixt/
• Rhymes: -ixt

Noun

hight

1. hopefulness, expectedness
2. gladness, satisfaction

Descendants

• English: hight (obsolete)

References

• “hight, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-24.