heighe
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Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English hēah.
Alternative forms[edit]
Adverb[edit]
heighe (comparative heigher, superlative heighest)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “heighe, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2[edit]
Adjective[edit]
heighe (comparative heigher, superlative heighest)
- Alternative form of heigh (“high”)
Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
heighe
- Alternative form of heye (“hedge”)
Yola[edit]
Adjective[edit]
heighe
- Alternative form of heigh (“high”)
- 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 18:
- Neeghe a heighe thoornes (or thoweares) o' Culpake
- [Nigh to the high thorns of Colepeak.]
References[edit]
- 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 18