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Hight vs Ight - What's the difference?

hight | ight |

As nouns the difference between hight and ight

is that hight is obsolete form of lang=en while ight is possession.

As a verb hight

is to call, name.

As an adjective hight

is called, named.

hight

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

  • (archaic) To call, name.
  • (archaic) To be called or named.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (archaic) Called, named.

    • Etymology 2

    See height

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    Alternative forms

    *highte

    ight

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (l)

    • References

    * “ Ight]” listed on page 30 of volume V (H–K), § ii (I) of '' [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