heighe

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hēah.

Alternative forms

• heyghe, hecȝe, hæhȝe, hȝe

Adverb

heighe (comparative heigher, superlative heighest)

1. high

Descendants

• English: high
• Scots: heich

References

• “heighe, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Adjective

heighe (comparative heigher, superlative heighest)

1. Alternative form of heigh (“high”)

Etymology 3

Noun

heighe

1. Alternative form of heye (“hedge”)

Yola

Adjective

heighe

1. 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