different between leigh vs heigh

English

Alternative forms

• lea, ley
• (in personal and place names) -leigh, -ley, -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: lea, Lea, Lee, Leigh, li, Li, Lie

Etymology

From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”) from Old English l?ah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”). Akin to Old Frisian l?ch (“meadow”), Old Saxon l?h (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (“used in placenames”)), Old High German l?h (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse l? (“clearing, meadow”). More at Waterloo.

Noun

leigh (plural leighs)

1. (archaic) A meadow.

Manx

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [l?i]

Noun

leigh f (genitive singular leigh, plural leighaghyn or leighyn)

1. law

Derived terms

• fo-leigh
• leighder

Middle English

Verb

leigh

1. Alternative form of laughen

Yola

Verb

leigh

1. Alternative form of leiough

English

Alternative forms

• hey, hi
• hegh, hech (Scotland)

Etymology

Probably of imitative origin. Compare hey, eh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /he?/

Interjection

heigh

1. An exclamation designed to call attention, give encouragement, etc.
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, scene 1:

     Heigh, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts.

Derived terms

• heigh-ho

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English h?ah, from Proto-West Germanic *hauh (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”).

Adjective

heigh (comparative heigher, superlative heighest)

1. high

Alternative forms

• heighe, hei?, hei?e, hei?h, heih, hei, heie, heij, hegh, heghe, heg, hege, he?, he?e, he?he, heh, hehe, heh?e, egh, e?e, he, high, highe, hi?, hi?e, hih, hihe, hiegh, hie?, hie?e, i?e, hi, hie, hij, heygh, heyghe, hey?, hey?e, heyh, hey, heye, hygh, hyghe, hy?, hy?e, hyh, hyhe, hye?, y?e, hy, hye
• heah, heahe, heah?æ, hea?e, hea?æ, hæh, hæh?e, hæge, hæ?e, hah, hage, haihe, a?e, haie, haye (early)

Derived terms

• hyghnesse

Descendants

• English: high
• Scots: heich
• Yola: heigh, hia

References

• “heigh, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Interjection

heigh

1. Alternative form of hey (“hey”)

Etymology 3

Noun

heigh (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of hey (“hay”)

Etymology 4

Verb

heigh (third-person singular simple present heigheth, present participle heighynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle heighed)

1. Alternative form of hien (“to go quickly”)

Yola

Alternative forms

• hia

Etymology

From Middle English heigh, from Old English h?ah, from Proto-West Germanic *hauh.

Adjective

heigh

1. high

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