bight – English noun declension

English noun forms of bight

Noun: bight
Singularbight
Pluralbights

Sample Sentences

  • the bight of a horse's knee
  • the bight of an elbow
  • I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river. [1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, page 166:]
  • I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking. [1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English bight, biȝt, byȝt (also bought, bowght, bouȝt; see bought), from Old English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *beuganą (“to bend, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with North Frisian boch, bocht, bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Saterland Frisian Bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), West Frisian bocht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Dutch bocht (“bay, bight”), German Bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Icelandic bót (“bight, cove, small bay”); also Albanian butë (“soft, flabby”), Ukrainian бга́ти (bháty, “to crumple, twist”), Sanskrit भुज् (bhuj, “to bend, curve; to sweep”). See: Middle English Nouns 'bight', Old English Nouns 'byht', Dutch Nouns 'bocht', German Nouns 'Bucht', Icelandic Nouns 'bót'.

Verbs referencing "bight"

Danish Nouns bugt.