hote

Etymology
From, , , from , from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,🇨🇬,🇨🇬. Related to,.

Verb

 * 1)  To command; to enjoin.
 * 2)  To promise.
 * 3)  To be called, be named.
 * 4)  To call, name.
 * 1)  To be called, be named.
 * 2)  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 commanded five sailors to 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 commanded his men to 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.