hote

Meaning

Verb

• To command; to enjoin.
• To promise.
• To be called, be named.
• To call, name.

Origin

• From Middle English hoten, hoaten, haten, from Old English hātan, from Proto-West Germanic *haitan, from Proto-Germanic *haitaną, from Proto-Indo-European *keyd-, from *key-.
• Cognate with Saterland Frisian heete, Dutch heten, German Low German heten, German heißen, Swedish heta ("to be called"). Related to hight, hest.