whit
Middle English
/ʍiːt/
adj
Definitions
- white, pale, light (in color)
- (referring to people) wearing white clothes
- (referring to people) having white skin
- attractive, fair, beautiful
- bright, shining, brilliant
- (referring to plants) having white flowers
- (heraldry) silver, argent tincture
- (alchemy) Inducing the transmutation of a substance into silver
- (medicine) Unusually light; bearing the pallor of death
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hwīt (white) inherited from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz (white).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*hwītaz
Gloss
white
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
白
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Eurowhite English
- White Crown English
- White Day English
- White Sox English
- Whiteacre English
- Whiteboy English
- Whitehead English
- Whitehorse English
- Whitsun English
- Whitworth English
- Witter English
- acetowhite English
- antiwhite English
- green-white-checkered English
- hyperwhite English
- interwhite English
- intrawhite English
- lily-white English
- monowhite English
- non-white English
- nonwhite English
- paperwhite English
- pro-white English
- prowhite English
- snow-white English
- superwhite English
- tighty whities English
- unwhite English
- wheatear English
- white English
- white truffle English
- white-crowned plover English
- white-eye English
- white-haired English
- white-handed English
- white-rumped hawk English
- white-shirt English
- white-tailed hawk English
- white-throated hawk English
- whiteass English
- whiteback English
- whitebait English
- whitebark English
- whitebeam English
- whitebeard English
- whitebelly English
- whitebill English
- whiteboard English
- whiteboy English
- whitecap English
- whitecapped English
- whitecapper English
- whitecoat English
- whitedamp English
- whiteface English
- whitefella English
- whitefeller English
- whitefellow English
- whitefin English
- whitefish English
- whitefly English
- whitefront English
- whitegirl English
- whitehaired English
- whitehead English
- whitehood English
- whiteist English
- whiteless English
- whitelike English
- whitelime English
- whitelip English
- whitelist English
- whitely English
- whitemail English
- whiten English
- whiteness English
- whiteout English
- whitephobia English
- whitepot English
- whitepox English
- whiteprint English
- whiteprinting English
- whiterump English
- whiteschist English
- whiteside English
- whitesmith English
- whitesplain English
- whitesploitation English
- whitestart English
- whitester English
- whitestone English
- whitetail English
- whitethorn English
- whitethroat English
- whitetip English
- whitetop English
- whitewall English
- whiteware English
- whitewash English
- whitewax English
- whiteweed English
- whitewing English
- whitewood English
- whitework English
- whiteworm English
- whitewort English
- whitey English
- whitify English
- whiting English
- whitish English
- whitism English
- whitist English
- whitleather English
- whitling English
- whitret English
- whity English
- *ḱweydós Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱweytos Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱweytos, ḱweydos Proto-Indo-European
- *hwītaz Proto-Germanic
- ホワイト Japanese
- bilehwit Old English
- hwit Old English
- hwitian Old English
- hwitnes Old English
- hwīt Old English
- snāwhwīt Old English
- snow Middle English
- snow whit Middle English
- hvítr Old Norse
- wiz Old High German
- wīz Old High German
- 𐍈𐌴𐌹𐍄𐍃 Gothic
- *hwīt gmw-pro
- hwit Old Saxon
- hwīt Old Saxon
- hwīt Old Frisian
- wīt Old Frisian
- wait Tok Pisin
- waet Bislama
- wichtgata Crimean Gothic