Re: Active and Passive please help.

On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:23 PM Vasiliy Chernov wrote:

> >Or Middle and Old English as well!
> >
> > heten /het@n/
> >
> >  he het Thomas  He is called Thomas    /hEt/
> >  he hight Thomas He was called Thomas  /hIxt/
>
> I thought it was hátan > hote(n) (past, heoht > hight). No?
>
>
> Basilius
Quoting from Glossary to I.P.Ivanova's "A Reader in Early English",
Leningrad, 1973:

hátan, heht, sv.7 - to order, to call; hátte = was called; ME hight (<OE
heht), haten, hoten || Gth. haitan; OHG heizzan; MnG heissen; OS hétan; OFr
héta; Icel heita

IMHO it really should be _heoht_, and not _heht_, but who cares...

Yitzik
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