different between hight vs ight

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.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English iht, ei?t, e?te, æihte, from Old English ?ht (“possessions, property, riches”), from Proto-Germanic *aihtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *?yk- (“to have, own, be able to”).

Noun

ight (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) possession

Alternative forms

• eight, aught

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Contraction

ight

1. (slang) Alternative form of aight

References

• “Ight” listed on page 30 of volume V (H–K), § ii (I) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1901]
  ??Ight, var. eighte, Aught sb.¹?Obs., possession.?[¶]?1390 Gower Conf. II. 378 This Priamus had in his ight [MS. Fairfax 3 yhte] A wife and Hecuba she hight.
• “ight” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

Anagrams

• ghit, gith, thig, tigh