What is the origin of the name High?
English:: 1: nickname for a tall man from Middle English heigh hey high ‘high tall’ (Old English hēah). Compare Hay 3.2: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(on the) [...]
An Icelandic-English dictionary
...For Old and Middle High German, Graff's Sprach-schatz, and Mittelhoch-Dentsches Wörterbuch, 1854 sqq.... (Iceland - 1854)
...For Old and Middle High German, Graff's Sprach-schatz, and Mittelhoch-Dentsches Wörterbuch, 1854 sqq.... (Iceland - 1854)
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An Icelandic-English dictionary
...H. G. = middle High German, mid. Lat. = middle Latin, milit. = military.... (Iceland - 1957)
...H. G. = middle High German, mid. Lat. = middle Latin, milit. = military.... (Iceland - 1957)
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What is the origin of the name High?
English:: 1: nickname for a tall man from Middle English heigh hey high ‘high tall’ (Old English hēah). Compare Hay 3.2: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(on the) [...]