hote

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See also: hôte and hotê

English

Etymology

From Middle English hoten, hoaten, haten, from Old English hātan (“to command, be called”), from Proto-West Germanic *haitan, from Proto-Germanic *haitaną (“command, name”), from Proto-Indo-European *keyd-, from *key- (“put in motion, be moving”).

Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian heete (“to be named”), Dutch heten (“to be named”), German Low German heten (“to be called, be named”), German heißen (“to be called”),German heißen (“to tell to do s.th.”),Swedish heta (“to be called”). Related to hight, hest.

Pronunciation

Verb

hote (third-person singular simple present hotes, present participle hoting, simple past hight, past participle hoten)

  1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To command; to enjoin.
    The captain hight five sailors stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo.
    Beowulf hight his men build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever.
  2. (obsolete) To promise.
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To be called, be named.
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To call, name.

Usage notes

  • In the sense of "to command, enjoin", hight may be replaced as follows:
  • The captain hight five sailors stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo. = The captain commanded five sailors to stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo.
  • Beowulf hight his men build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever. = Beowulf commanded his men to build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever.
  • The word survives only as part of the oral tradition in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is no longer used in common speech.

Related terms

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

hote

  1. Alternative form of ote

Yola

Adjective

hote

  1. Alternative form of hoat

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 46
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