different between dright vs eright

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)

1. (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)

1. Alternative form of drighten
2. A lord; ruler; chief; leader.
3. (often capitalised) The Lord; The Lord God; Christ.

Derived terms

• drightness
• drightful
• drightlike

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