eita
Faroese
verb
Definitions
- to be called
- to be said
- to mean
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse heita (promise, call, heat, name, vow, be called) derived from Proto-Germanic *haitaną (name, command, call, address, be called, be call, summon).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*haitaną
Gloss
name, command, call, address, be called, be call, summon
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
名
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- behight English
- hight English
- *kei- Proto-Indo-European
- *key(w)- Proto-Indo-European
- *keyd- Proto-Indo-European
- *haitaną Proto-Germanic
- *hehait Proto-Germanic
- heita Norwegian Nynorsk
- heite Norwegian Nynorsk
- hatan Old English
- hātan Old English
- hēht Old English
- hight Middle English
- heita Old Norse
- heiti Old Norse
- sohaidier Old French
- heit Icelandic
- heita Icelandic
- heizzan Old High German
- heita Faroese
- eischen Middle High German
- 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *haitan gmw-pro
- hetan Old Dutch
- hētan Old Dutch
- hetan Old Saxon
- heta Old Swedish
- hēta, heta Old Swedish
- *haitan Frankish
- hēta Old Frisian
- hetæ Old Danish
- ᚺᚨᛁᛏᛖ Proto-Norse