wight
Middle English
/wixt/, /wixt/
noun
Definitions
- A creature, a being.
- A person, a human being.
- A demon, monster
- A small amount (of a quantity, length, distance or time); a whit.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English wiht (person, being, creature, whit, thing, something, anything, wight, human being, weight) inherited from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz (essence, object, thing).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*wihtiz
Gloss
essence, object, thing
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- godwit English
- wight English
- wightly English
- *wekti- Proto-Indo-European
- *weǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wihtiz Proto-Germanic
- *wihtą Proto-Germanic
- awiht Old English
- efenwiht Old English
- wiht Old English
- weight Middle English
- wiȝt Middle English
- véttr Old Norse
- vítr Old Norse
- gewichte Middle Dutch
- iowiht Old High German
- wiht Old High German
- 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍃 Gothic
- wicht Middle Low German
- wiht Old Saxon