How do you communicate someone&#x27;s name then?
You can&#x27;t say &quot;the name IS&quot;, or &quot;He&#x2F;she IS called&quot;.
The cognate to the word all the other Germanic languages use has become archaic and even lacks a present tense form:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;hight#English" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;hight#English</a><p>Maybe: &quot;One calls her&#x2F;him&quot;?