See wite in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"t": "to see, accuse, go, depart"
},
"expansion": "Old English wītan (“to see, accuse, go, depart”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*wītan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *wītan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*wītaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wītaną",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*weyd-",
"t": "to see, find, behold"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, find, behold”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English witen, from Old English wītan (“to see, accuse, go, depart”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītan, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, find, behold”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "wites",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "witing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wited",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "wited",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English poetic terms",
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To go; go away; depart; perish; vanish."
],
"links": [
[
"go",
"go"
],
[
"depart",
"depart"
],
[
"perish",
"perish"
],
[
"vanish",
"vanish"
]
],
"qualifier": "otherwise obsolete",
"raw_glosses": [
"(poetic, otherwise obsolete) To go; go away; depart; perish; vanish."
],
"tags": [
"poetic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "wīt"
},
{
"ipa": "/waɪt/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪt"
},
{
"homophone": "wight"
},
{
"homophone": "white (wine–whine merger)"
}
],
"word": "wite"
}
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