Define:Whit
Appearance
Relatit: Whit
Scots
[eedit soorce]Pronoun
[eedit soorce]Whit
- (interrogative) That thing, event, circumstance, etc.: Template:N-g
- (relative, nonstandard) That; wha.
Adverb
[eedit soorce]Whit (nae comparable)
- In some manner or degree; in part; partly; usually followed by with.
Determiner
[eedit soorce]Whit
Inglis
[eedit soorce]Etymology
[eedit soorce]Frae Middle Inglis, frae Old English wiht (“wight, person, creature, being, whit, thing, something, anything”), frae Proto-Germanic *wihtą (“thing, craitur”) or Proto-Germanic *wihtiz (“essence, object”), frae Proto-Indo-European *wekti- (“cause, sake, thing”), frae Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (“tae say, tell”). Cognate wi Old High German wiht (“craitur, thing”), Dutch wicht, German Wicht. See an aa wight.
Pronunciation
[eedit soorce]- enPR: wĭt, hwĭt, /wɪt/
- (deprecatit uise o
|lang=
parameter) Rhymes: -ɪt - Template:Homophones (in accents wi the wine-whine merger)
Noon
[eedit soorce]Whit (plural Whits)
- wheet
- He worked tirelessly to collect and wind a ball of string eight feet around, and it matters not one whit.
Middle Inglis
[eedit soorce]Etymology
[eedit soorce]Frae Old English hwit.
Adjective
[eedit soorce]Whit
Descendants
[eedit soorce]- Inglis: white