Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Firmly, so as not to come loose easily. · Soundly.
Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open. · Unyielding or firm. · Under high tension; taut. · Scarce, hard to come by.
From Middle English tight, tyght, tyȝt, tiht, variants of thight, thiht, from Old English *þiht, *þīht (attested in meteþiht), from Proto-West Germanic *þį̄ht(ī), from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tenkt- (“dense, thick, tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, pull”). Cognate with Scots ticht, West Frisian ticht, Danish tæt, Icelandic þéttur (“dense”), Norwegian tett, Swedish tät, Dutch dicht (“dense”), German dicht (“dense”). The current form with t- /t/ rather than etymologically-expected th- /θ/ arose in Middle English under the influence of the etymologically-unrelated verbs tighten and tight, which come from a different Proto-Indo-European root (starting with *d- and thus regularly having t-).
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- Inherited-form mentiontightenm
- Inherited-form mention*þihtang
- Inherited-form mention*þį̄ht(ī)gmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*þinhtazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*tenkt-ine-pro · dense, thick, tight
- Derivation mention*ten-ine-pro · to stretch, pull
- Cognate mentiontichtsco
- Cognate mentiontichtfy
- Cognate mentiontætda
- Cognate mentionþétturis · dense
- Cognate mentiontettno
- Cognate mentiontätsv
- Cognate mentiondichtnl · dense
- Cognate mentiondichtde · dense
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