Noun: wite
Gender:
Sample Sentences
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Ā iċ wīte won mīnra wræcsīþa. (I always borne the yearning of my exile-ways.) [10th century, The Wife's Lament:]
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Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
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Þæt fīfte wīte wæs cwealm on heora orfe, swā þæt on ðām lande fornēan nān orf ne belāf, buton Israheles bē ānsund ġestōd. (The fifth plague was a pestilence among their livestock, such that in the land almost no livestock were left, except for those of Israel, who remained healthy.)
Nouns inflected like wite
wite,
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *wītī, from Proto-Germanic *wītiją. Cognate with Old Frisian wīte, Old Saxon wīti, Old High German wīzi, Old Norse víti. See: Old Norse Nouns '
víti'.
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