tyght
Middle English
Alternative forms
- tight, tiht
- thight (early), thyht, thyte, thythe
Etymology
From Old English *þīht, *þiht (attested in meteþiht) and Old Norse þéttr, both from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tixt/
References
- “tight, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English tyght, from Old English *þīht.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tiːt/
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 73
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