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

1. crowded, close, dense
2. heavy, thick
3. 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːt/

Adjective

tyght

1. tight

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 73