Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hight
Participle: highted
Gerund: highting
Indicative
Present
| I | hight |
| you | hight |
| he;she;it | hights |
| we | hight |
| you | hight |
| they | hight |
Perfect
| I | have highted |
| you | have highted |
| he;she;it | has highted |
| we | have highted |
| you | have highted |
| they | have highted |
Past
| I | highted |
| you | highted |
| he;she;it | highted |
| we | highted |
| you | highted |
| they | highted |
Pluperfect
| I | had highted |
| you | had highted |
| he;she;it | had highted |
| we | had highted |
| you | had highted |
| they | had highted |
Future
| I | will hight |
| you | will hight |
| he;she;it | will hight |
| we | will hight |
| you | will hight |
| they | will hight |
Future Perfect
| I | will have highted |
| you | will have highted |
| he;she;it | will have highted |
| we | will have highted |
| you | will have highted |
| they | will have highted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hight |
| you | hight |
| he;she;it | hight |
| we | hight |
| you | hight |
| they | hight |
Perfect
| I | have highted |
| you | have highted |
| he;she;it | have highted |
| we | have highted |
| you | have highted |
| they | have highted |
Imperfect
| I | highted |
| you | highted |
| he;she;it | highted |
| we | highted |
| you | highted |
| they | highted |
Pluperfect
| I | had highted |
| you | had highted |
| he;she;it | had highted |
| we | had highted |
| you | had highted |
| they | had highted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hight |
| you | would hight |
| he;she;it | would hight |
| we | would hight |
| you | would hight |
| they | would hight |
Perfect
| I | would have highted |
| you | would have highted |
| he;she;it | would have highted |
| we | would have highted |
| you | would have highted |
| they | would have highted |
Imperative
| you | hight |
| we | Let's hight |
| you | hight |
Verbs conjugated like 'hight'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hight'
dight,
fight,
high,
light,
night,
right,
sight,
tight,
adight,
alight,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "named, called" (archaic), M.E.
highte, from O.E.
hatte "I am called" (passive of
hatan "to call, name, command") merged with
heht "called," active past tense of the same verb.
Hatte was the only survival in O.E. of the old Gmc. synthetic passive tense. It is related to O.N.
heita, Du.
heten, Ger.
heißen, Goth.
haitan "to call, be called, command" (see cite).
2. From Middle English highten, variant of hoten (“to name, to be named”), from Old English hātan. The stem of the word was remodelled by analogy with the simple past form hight, from Old English hēht. Cognate with Scots hecht, Dutch heten, German heißen, etc.
Verbs referencing "hight"
Faroese
eita, Luxembourgish
heeschen.
Sample Sentences
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King Arthur's court was hight Camelot.
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He that made loue vnto the eldeſt Dame, Was hight Sir Huddibras, an hardy man[…] [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene, page 209:]
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Childe Harold was he hight. [1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza III:]
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“Lord,” said Sir Launcelot, “I am hight Launcelot, and am surnamed ‘He of the Lake.’” [1905, Howard Pyle, “The Story of Launcelot”, in The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 66:]
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I hight Sir Galahad.
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Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight. [c. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The faithful Lover declareth his Pains and his uncertain Joys, and with only Hope recomforteth somewhat his woful Heart:]
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In all the worlde one onely face of nature did abide, which Chaos hight [1567, Ovid, The.xv.Bookes of P. Ouidius Naſo, entytuled Metamorphoſis, tranſlated oute of Latin into Engliſh meeter, by Arthur Golding, Gentleman:]
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There did I ſee that low ſpirited Swaine […] which as I remember, hight Coſtard […] [c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
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Malaise priest of Innishmurry / Hights me go, and I obey. [1872, John Stuart Blackie, Lays of the Highlands and Islands:]