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stight

stight verb: to found; establish; set.

Verb

stight (third-person singular simple present stights, present participle stighting, simple past and past participle stighted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) to found; establish; set

Forms of stight

third-person singular presentstights
present participlestighting
past participlestighted
paststighted

Origin of stight

From Middle English stighten, stiȝten, from Old English stihtan, stihtian (“to dispose, arrange, regulate, direct, rule; instigate, incite”), from Proto-West Germanic *stihtijan, *stihtōn, from Proto-Germanic *stihtiz (“a step, track, overpass”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to go, climb”). Related to German stiften and Dutch stichten.

Words formed from stight

  • stightle

Questions about stight

What does stight mean?
Stight means to found; establish; set.
What part of speech is stight?
Stight is a verb.
What is the past tense of stight?
The past tense of stight is stighted.

Words near stight in the dictionary

  1. Stigalls
  2. Stiger
  3. Stigers
  4. Stigger
  5. Stiggers
  6. stight
  7. Stigian
  8. Stigler
  9. Stigler's law
  10. Stiglitz
  11. stigma

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