An obsolete or dialectal spelling of 'eight', the number 8.
From Old English 'eahta', this Middle English variant shows how the number eight was spelled differently across regions and time periods before standardized spelling conventions emerged.
Medieval scribes spelled numbers so inconsistently that 'eight' had dozens of regional variants—'eyght' is a window into a time when there was no unified way to write numbers!
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