Noun: thwaite
| Singular | thwaite |
| Plural | thwaites |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like thwaite
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English *thwait, a borrowing from Old Norse þveit (“paddock”). Compare Old Norse þveita (“to hurl”) (see whittle), Danish døjt (“¹⁄₁₆₀ of the gulden”, dialectal: “a small coin”), German Deut, Dutch duit. Cognate with Old English þwītan (“to thwite; cut; cut off”). Doublet of doit, and possibly of twat. See: Middle English Nouns '
*thwait', Middle English Nouns '
*thwait', Old Norse Nouns '
þveit', Old Norse Nouns '
þveita', Old English Nouns '
þwītan'.
Verbs referencing "thwaite"
Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
tveit.