Noun: wiht
Gender: n
Nominative
| Singular | wiht |
| Plural | wihte; wihta; wihtu |
Genitive
| Singular | wihte; wihtes |
| Plural | wihta |
Dative
| Singular | wihte |
| Plural | wihtum |
Accusative
| Singular | wiht; wihte |
| Plural | wihte; wihta; wihtu |
Sample Sentences
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late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
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God ne ēht nānre wihte, for þȳ hine nān wiht ne mæġ flēon. (God doesn't chase anything, because nothing can run from him.)
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ᚢ byþ ānmōd and oferhyrned, felafrēcne dēor, feohteþ mid hornum, mǣre mōrstapa; þæt is mōdiġ wuht. (An aurochs is steadfast and over-horned, well-wrathful beast, fights with horns, the well-known moor-stepper. That’s a headstrong being.) [c. 1000, The Rune Poem:]
Nouns inflected like wiht
wiht,
Etymology
1. From a fusion of Proto-Germanic *wihtiz (feminine) and *wihtą (neuter), both meaning "thing". These words became *wihti and *wiht in West Germanic and then merged in ante-historic Old English by regular sound change.
2. Cognate with Old Saxon wiht (Low German Wicht), Old Dutch wiht (Dutch wicht), Old High German wiht (German Wicht), Old Norse vætr (Swedish vätte), and Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍃 (waihts) and 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄 (waiht). See: Dutch Nouns '
wicht', German Nouns '
Wicht', Old Norse Nouns '
vætr', Swedish Nouns '
vätte', Gothic Nouns '
𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍃'.
Verbs referencing "wiht"
English Nouns
weight, English Nouns
whit, English Nouns
wight, Middle English Nouns
wight, Middle English Nouns
weght.
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