hight

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• rhymes with -aɪt
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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.

English topographic surname, from the noun height. Compare Haight.

See height

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Russian: называ́емый (nazyvájemyj) — called, named
• Russian: имену́емый (imenújemyj) — called, named
• Belarusian: называ́цца (nazyvácca) — be called
• Bulgarian: ка́звам се (kázvam se) — be called
• Bulgarian: нари́чам се (naríčam se) — be called
• Burmese: ခေါ် (hkau) — be called
• Catalan: dir-se — be called
• Chinese Mandarin: 叫 (jiào) — be called
• Chinese Mandarin: 稱為 /称为 (chēngwéi) — be called
• Czech: jmenovat se — be called
• Danish: hedde — be called
• Dutch: heten — be called
• Esperanto: nomiĝi — be called
• Faroese: eita — be called
• Finnish: kutsutaan — be called
• French: s'appeler — be called
• French: se nommer — be called
• Galician: chamarse — be called
• German: heißen — be called
• German: sich nennen — be called
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (haitan) — be called
• Greek: λέγομαι (légomai) — be called
• Icelandic: heita — be called
• Italian: chiamarsi — be called
• Japanese: ...と言う (... to iu) — be called
• Japanese: ...という (... to iu) — be called
• Japanese: ...と申す (... to mōsu) — be called
• Khmer: ឈ្មោះ (chmʊəh) — be called
• Korean: ...(이)라고 부르다 — be called
• Lao: ຊື່ (sư̄) — be called
• Macedonian: се ви́ка (se víka) — be called
• Norwegian Bokmål: hete — be called
• Norwegian Nynorsk: heita — be called
• Old English: hātan — be called
• Old Norse: heita — be called
• Persian: گفته شدن (gofte šodan) — be called
• Polish: nazywać się — be called
• Polish: zwać się — be called
• Portuguese: chamar-se — be called
• Russian: называ́ться (nazyvátʹsja) — be called
• Russian: именова́ться (imenovátʹsja) — be called
• Serbo-Croatian: zvati — be called
• Serbo-Croatian: звати — be called
• Slovak: volať sa — be called
• Slovene: imenovati se — be called
• Spanish: llamarse — be called
• Swedish: heta — be called
• Thai: ชื่อ (chʉ̂ʉ) — be called
• Turkish: çağrılabilir — be called
• Ukrainian: назива́тися (nazyvátysja) — be called
• Vietnamese: được gọi là — be called
• Volapük: panemön — be called