English Explanatory Dictionary

stight

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. to found; establish; set

Word forms

stight stights stighting stighted

Etymology

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.

Related words

stickle

Derived words

stightle
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