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
- crowded, close, dense
- heavy, thick
- tightly packed, solid
Descendants
- English: tight
- Yola: tyght
References
- “tight, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English tyght, from Old English *þīht.
Adjective
tyght
- tight
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , 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, J. Russell Smith, →ISBN