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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English eighte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō. Cognates include English eight and Scots aicht.
Pronunciation
Numeral
ayght
- eight
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 16 & 24