hote

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”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /həʊt/
• (General American) enPR: hōt, IPA^(key): /hoʊt/
• Rhymes: -əʊt

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.

• 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.

• behote

• Theo, Theo., etho-, theo, theo-

hote

1. alternative form of ote

hote

1. alternative form of hoat

• 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