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/

Adjective

tyght

  1. crowded, close, dense
  2. heavy, thick
  3. tightly packed, solid

Descendants

  • English: tight
  • Yola: tyght

References

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English tyght, from Old English *þīht.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiːt/

Adjective

tyght

  1. tight

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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