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===Etymology===
===Etymology===
{{PIE root|en|bʰewgʰ}}
{{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰewgʰ-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|bight}}, {{m|enm|biȝt}}, {{m|enm|byȝt}} (also {{m|enm|bought}}, {{m|enm|bowght}}, {{m|enm|bouȝt}}, see {{l|en|bought}}), from {{inh|en|ang|byht|t=bend, angle, corner; bay, bight}}, from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*buhtiz|t=bend, curve}}, from {{der|en|ine-pro|*bʰūgʰ-|t=to bend}}. Cognate with {{cog|sco|bicht|t=bight}}, {{cog|nl|bocht|t=bend, curve}}, {{cog|nds|Bucht|t=bend, bay}}, {{cog|de|Bucht|t=bay, bight}}, {{cog|da|bugt|t=bay}}, {{cog|is|bugða|t=curve}}, {{cog|sq|butë|t=soft, flabby}} . Compare {{l|en|bought}}.
From {{inh|en|enm|bight}}, {{m|enm|biȝt}}, {{m|enm|byȝt}} (also {{m|enm|bought}}, {{m|enm|bowght}}, {{m|enm|bouȝt}}; see {{m|en|bought}}), from {{inh|en|ang|byht|t=bend, angle, corner; bay, bight}}, from {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*buhti}}, from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*buhtiz|t=bend, curve}}, from {{der|en|ine-pro|*bʰūgʰ-|t=to bend}}.
Cognate with {{cog|sco|bicht|t=bight}}, {{cog|nl|bocht|t=bend, curve}}, {{cog|nds|Bucht|t=bend, bay}}, {{cog|de|Bucht|t=bay, bight}}, {{cog|da|bugt|t=bay}}, {{cog|is|bugða|t=curve}}, {{cog|sq|butë|t=soft, flabby}}.


===Pronunciation===
===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/baɪt/}}
* {{IPA|en|/baɪt/}}
** {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bight.wav|Audio (UK)}}
** {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bight.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{rhymes|en|aɪt}}
* {{rhymes|en|aɪt|s=1}}
* {{homophones|en|bite|by't|byte}}
* {{homophones|en|bite|by't|byte}}


===Noun===
===Noun===
{{en-noun}}
{{en-noun}}
[[File:Great Australian Bight map.png|thumb|230px|right|Map of Australia, showing the Great Australian Bight.]]
[[File:Great Australian Bight map.png|thumb|230px|right|Map of {{w|Australia}}, showing the {{w|Great Australian Bight}}.]]
[[File:Bight.jpg|thumb|A '''bight''' (curve in a rope)]]
[[File:Bight.jpg|thumb|A '''bight''' (curve in a rope)]]


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#: ''the '''bight''' of a horse's knee''
#: ''the '''bight''' of a horse's knee''
#: ''the '''bight''' of an elbow''
#: ''the '''bight''' of an elbow''
#* '''1905''', [[w:Robert Louis Stevenson|Robert Louis Stevenson]], ''[[s:Travels_with_a_Donkey_in_the_Cevennes_(1905)|Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes]]'', [[s:Travels_with_a_Donkey_in_the_Cevennes_(1905)/Chapter_5|page 166]]
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1905|author=w:Robert Louis Stevenson|title=[[s:Travels_with_a_Donkey_in_the_Cevennes_(1905)|Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes]]|section=[[s:Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes/The Country of the Camisards|page 166]]
#*: I spied a '''bight''' of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.
|passage=I spied a '''bight''' of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.}}
# An [[area]] of [[sea]] lying between two [[promontories]], [[larger]] than a [[bay]], [[wider]] than a [[gulf]]
# An [[area]] of [[sea]] lying between two [[promontories]], [[larger]] than a [[bay]], [[wider]] than a [[gulf]]
# {{lb|en|geography}} A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
# {{lb|en|geography}} A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
# A [[curve]] in a [[rope]]
# A [[curve]] in a [[rope]].
#* {{RQ:Conrad Heart of Darkness|part=I|passage=I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose '''bights''' swung between them, rhythmically clinking.}}
#* {{RQ:Conrad Heart of Darkness|part=I|passage=I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose '''bights''' swung between them, rhythmically clinking.}}


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* Dutch: {{t+|nl|bocht}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|bocht}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|mutka}} {{qualifier|corner}}; {{t+|fi|kuoppa}} {{qualifier|hollow}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|mutka}} {{qualifier|corner}}; {{t+|fi|kuoppa}} {{qualifier|hollow}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|hajlás}}, {{t+|hu|hajlat}}, {{t+|hu|öblösödés}}, {{t+|hu|bemélyedés}}, {{t+|hu|szöglet}}, {{t+|hu|kanyar}}, {{t+|hu|kanyarulat}}
{{trans-mid}}
* Ido: {{t+|io|sesgo}}
* Ido: {{t+|io|sesgo}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|изги́б|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|изги́б|m}}
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{{trans-top|large bay}}
{{trans-top|large bay}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|бухта|f}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|бухта|f}}
* Catalan: {{t|ca|badia oberta|f}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|bocht}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|bocht}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|lahti}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|lahti}}
* French: {{t+|fr|baie|f}}
* Georgian: {{t+|ka|უბე}}
* German: {{t+|de|Bucht|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Bucht|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|öböl}}, {{t+|hu|tengeröböl}}
{{trans-mid}}
* Interlingue: {{t|ie|baya}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|ansa|f}}, {{t+|it|baia|f}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|ansa|f}}, {{t+|it|baia|f}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|kokoru }}, {{t|mi|kokorutanga }}
* Maori: {{t|mi|kokoru}}, {{t|mi|kokorutanga}}, {{t|mi|kowhanenga}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|bukt|m|f}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|zatoka|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|enseada}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|enseada}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|бу́хта|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|бу́хта|f}}
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* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|бухта|f}}, {{t|bg|навито въже}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|бухта|f}}, {{t|bg|навито въже}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|lus}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|lus}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|mutka}}, {{t|fi|puhti}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|mutka}}, {{t+|fi|puhti}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|hurok}}
{{trans-mid}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|петля|f|alt=пе́тля, петля́}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|петля|f|alt=пе́тля, петля́}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|lazo|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|lazo|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To arrange or fasten (a rope) in bights.


===See also===
===See also===
* [[Appendix:Parts of the knot]]
* [[Appendix:Parts of the knot]]

{{C|en|Bodies of water}}

Latest revision as of 12:26, 27 November 2024

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English bight, biȝt, byȝt (also bought, bowght, bouȝt; see bought), from Old English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”).

Cognate with Scots bicht (“bight”), Dutch bocht (“bend, curve”), Low German Bucht (“bend, bay”), German Bucht (“bay, bight”), Danish bugt (“bay”), Icelandic bugða (“curve”), Albanian butë (“soft, flabby”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bight (plural bights)

Map of Australia, showing the Great Australian Bight.
A bight (curve in a rope)
  1. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow
    the bight of a horse's knee
    the bight of an elbow
  2. An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
  3. (geography) A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
  4. A curve in a rope.
    • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
      I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking.
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Translations

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Verb

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bight (third-person singular simple present bights, present participle bighting, simple past and past participle bighted)

  1. (transitive) To arrange or fasten (a rope) in bights.

See also

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