hight

Etymology 1
From (alternative past participle of, see also ), from , from *hehait-, reduplicate preterite base of , from. Akin to 🇨🇬.

Verb
hight is only the preterite or past participle, not the infinitive or present.


 * 1)  To call, name.
 * 2)  To be called or named.
 * 3)  To command; to enjoin.
 * 1)  To be called or named.
 * 2)  To command; to enjoin.
 * 1)  To be called or named.
 * 2)  To command; to enjoin.
 * 1)  To command; to enjoin.
 * 1)  To command; to enjoin.

Usage notes

 * The verb hight has many different forms in many different regions. For the present tense the form was rather common. The usage example for the sense "to command or to enjoin" can be rendered in standard English in the following manner:
 * Moreover, in the sense "to enjoin", the word is mainly used for emphasis, and as such is untranslatable into standard English. For example:
 * The word survives only as part of the oral tradition in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is no longer used in common speech.
 * The word survives only as part of the oral tradition in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is no longer used in common speech.
 * 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

 * Belarusian: называ́цца
 * Bulgarian: ка́звам се,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: nomiĝi
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: kutsutaan
 * French: ,
 * Galician: chamarse
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ຊື່
 * Macedonian: вика
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: heita
 * Old English: hātan
 * Old Norse: heita
 * Persian: گفته شدن
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: chamar-se
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, звати
 * Slovak: volať
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: use ཟེར, ཞུ + possessor: ལ་དོན (oblique/dative-locative case) (ལ/ལ|-ར)
 * Turkish: çağrılabilir
 * Ukrainian: назива́тися
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:

Adjective

 * 1)  Called, named.

Translations

 * Russian: ,

Etymology 2
See height

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) hopefulness, expectedness
 * 2) gladness, satisfaction