hight

Verb

no-present-participle not the infinitive obsolete participle past archaic transitive intransitive dialectal

(obsolete) simple past tense of hote / (archaic, transitive) To call, name. / (archaic, intransitive) To be called or named. / (archaic, dialectal) To command; to enjoin.

Japanese Meaning

（古語）hoteの過去形 / （古語、他動詞）～と呼ぶ、名付ける / （古語、自動詞）～と呼ばれる、名付けられる / （古語、方言）命じる、告げる

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In the old chronicle, the hero hight Alaric saved the kingdom.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

古い年代記には、その英雄がアラリックと呼ばれ、王国を救ったと記されている。

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Sense（1）

(obsolete) simple past tense of hote

Sense（2）

(archaic, transitive) To call, name.

But if that I knewe what his name hight,

For clatering of me I would him ſone quight;

For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never,

I could make him ſhortly repent him forever: […]

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Sense（3）

(archaic, intransitive) To be called or named.

Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight.

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Sense（4）

(archaic, dialectal) To command; to enjoin.

I hight ye take me wi' ye. I ne can no lenger her b'live.

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hight hight is only the preterite

（ canonical ）

present.

（ canonical ）

hight

（ participle past ）

hight

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