different between hyte vs hote

English

Etymology

From archaic Scots

Adjective

hyte (comparative more hyte, superlative most hyte)

1. (obsolete, Scotland) insane or mad

References

• Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997
• Enhanced North American Benchmark LEexicon (ENABLE2K)

Anagrams

• they, thye, ythe

English

Etymology

From Middle English hoten, hoaten, haten, from Old English h?tan (“to command, be called”), from Proto-Germanic *haitan? (“command, name”), from Proto-Indo-European *keyd-, from *key- (“put in motion, be moving”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian heete (“to be named”), Dutch heten (“to be named”), German Low German heten (“to be called, be named”), German heißen (“to be called”), Swedish heta (“to be called”). Related to hight, hest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Verb

hote (third-person singular simple present hotes, present participle hoting, simple past hight, past participle hoten)

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To command; to enjoin.

2. (obsolete) To promise.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To be called, be named.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To call, name.

Usage notes

• In the sense of "to command, enjoin", hight may be replaced as follows:

• The captain hight five sailors stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo. = The captain said to five sailors: Stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo.
• Beowulf hight his men build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever. = Beowulf said to his men: Build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever.

• The word survives only as part of the oral tradition in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is no longer used in common speech.

Related terms

• behote

Anagrams

• Theo, Theo., etho-, theo, theo-

Middle English

Noun

hote

1. Alternative form of ote