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dright
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?a?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English drihte, from Old English driht, dryht (“a multitude, an army, company, body of retainers, nation, a people, men”), from Proto-Germanic *druhtiz (“troop, following”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?rewg?- (“to hold, hold fast, support”). Cognate with Old Frisian dregte (“people, crowd, escort, retinue, host”), Middle Low German drucht (“band, war-team”), Middle High German truht (“multitude, offspring”), Icelandic drótt (“people, entourage, bodyguard”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????????? (gadrauhts, “soldier”). Related also to German Truchsess (“steward”), from Middle High German truhtsæze (“chairman of a multitude, steward”, literally “sitting one/presider next to/in front of a multitude". The meaning "multitude" survives in present day German in the sense of "representing a court”), from Old High German truhts?zzo.
Noun
dright (plural drights)
- (obsolete) A multitude; army; host.
Derived terms
- drightfare
- drightfolk
- drightman
Etymology 2
From Middle English dright, dri?t, earlier drihten, from Old English dryhten (“a ruler, king, lord, prince, the supreme ruler, the Lord, God, Christ”), from Proto-Germanic *druhtinaz (“leader, chief, lord”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?rewg?- (“to hold, hold fast, support”). Cognate with Scots drichtin, drichtine (“lord, the Lord”), Old Frisian drochten (“lord”), Old Saxon drohtin (“lord”), Middle High German truhten, trohten (“ruler, lord”), Danish drot (“king”), Swedish drotten, drott (“king, ruler, sovereign”), Icelandic drottinn (“lord, master, ruler, God”), Finnish ruhtinas (“sovereign prince”). Related also to Old English dryht (“a multitude, an army, company, body of retainers, nation, a people, men”), Old English ?edryht (“fortune, fate”), Old English dr?ogan (“to serve in the military, endure”). More at dree.
Alternative forms
- drighten
- drightin (Scotland)
Noun
dright (plural drights)
- Alternative form of drighten
- A lord; ruler; chief; leader.
- (often capitalised) The Lord; The Lord God; Christ.
Derived terms
- drightness
- drightful
- drightlike
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dight
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)
- (obsolete, transitive) To deal with, handle.
- (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;
- 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Manciple's Prologue:
- (obsolete, transitive) To dispose, put (in a given state or condition).
- (obsolete, transitive) To compose, make.
- 14thc., 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.
- 14thc., Anonymous, The Chester Mystery Plays, Noah's Flood:
- (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.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- (archaic, transitive) To furnish, equip.
- (archaic, transitive) To dress, array; to adorn.
- (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
- (obsolete) Disposed; adorned.
Adverb
dight
- (obsolete) Finely.
- Synonym: dightly
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Etymology
From Middle English dighten, from Old English dihtan, from Proto-Germanic *diht?n?.
Verb
dight
- 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
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