heighe
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English hēah.
Alternative forms
- heyghe, hecȝe, hæhȝe, hȝe
Adverb
heighe (comparative heigher, superlative heighest)
Descendants
References
- “heighe, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Adjective
heighe
- alternative form of heigh (“high”)
Etymology 3
Noun
heighe
- alternative form of heye (“hedge”)
Yola
Adjective
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
- 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