Re: Active and Passive please help.
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 22:30 |
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Am 18.12.01, Andreas Johansson yscrifef:
> BTW, what happened to the English cognate of Dutch "heten", German
> "heissen", Swedish "heta" etc? I remember finding it increadible that
> English lacks a verb of this meaning when I learnt it.
As I mentioned, it's "hight". John says it died in the 17th
century, but it can still be found in modern literature. We
generally use "call" in place of hight, now.
Padraic.
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