heighe

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hēah.

Alternative forms

heyghe, hecȝe, hæhȝe, hȝe

Adverb

heighe (comparative heigher, superlative heighest)

high

Descendants

English: high
Scots: heich

References

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

Adjective

heighe (comparative heigher, superlative heighest)

Alternative form of heigh (“high”)

Noun

heighe

Alternative form of heye (“hedge”)

Yola

Noun

heighe

Alternative form of heigh (“high”)
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
  Aar's dhurth a heighe.
  There's dirt on high.

References

Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 35

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