Infinitive
witch
Participles
| Present | witching |
| Past | witchit |
Present
Past
witchit
Verbs conjugated like witch
witch,
Etymology
From Middle English wicche, from Old English wiċċe (“witch (female), sorceress”) and wiċċa (“witch (male), sorcerer”) m., deverbative from wiċċian (“to practice sorcery”), from Proto-Germanic *wikkōną (compare West Frisian wikje, wikke (“to foretell, warn”), German Low German wicken (“to soothsay”), Dutch wikken, wichelen (“to dowse, divine”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wik-néh₂-, derivation of *weyk- (“to consecrate; separate”); akin to Latin victima (“sacrificial victim”), Lithuanian viẽkas (“life-force”), Sanskrit विनक्ति (vinákti, “to set apart, separate out”). See: Proto-Germanic '
*wikkōną', Dutch '
wikken', Sanskrit '
विनक्ति'.
Translations
bewitch, to cast a spell upon
enchant, to cast a spell upon