Hight Definition

Origin of Hight

• From Middle English hight (alternative past participle of hoten, “to be named, be called”), from Old English hēht (preterite of hātan, “to be named, be called”), from *hehait-, reduplicate preterite base of Proto-Germanic *haitaną (“to call, command, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *key(w)-, *kyew- (“to set in motion”). Cognate with Low German heten, German heißen, Danish hedde, Dutch heten, and Swedish heta, Latin cieō (“I call, I set in motion”).

  From Wiktionary

• Middle English past participle of highten, hihten to call, be called from hehte, hight past tense of hoten from Old English hātan keiə- in Indo-European roots

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition