hight
Middle English
/hixt/
noun
Definitions
- hopefulness, expectedness
- gladness, satisfaction
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hyht inherited from Proto-Germanic *huhtiz.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*huhtiz
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- behight English
- break-promise English
- enjoy English
- forepromise English
- hight English
- joy English
- joyance English
- joyant English
- joydom English
- joyful English
- joygasm English
- joyhood English
- joyish English
- joyless English
- joylike English
- joyness English
- joypad English
- joypop English
- joyride English
- joysome English
- joystick English
- killjoy English
- outpromise English
- overjoy English
- overpromise English
- promise English
- promisee English
- promiseful English
- promiseless English
- promiser English
- promisest English
- promiseth English
- rejoy English
- repromise English
- underpromise English
- unjoy English
- unpromise English
- promissum Latin
- promesse French
- *haitaną Proto-Germanic
- *huhtiz Proto-Germanic
- hyht Old English
- hēht Old English
- joye Middle English
- promisse, promis Middle English
- pramis Cebuano
- promis Tok Pisin