"wite" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /waɪt/ Forms: wites [plural]
enPR: wīt Rhymes: -aɪt Etymology: From Middle English wite (“guilt, blameworthiness, blame, wrongdoing, misdeed, offense, punishment, retribution, fine, bote, customary rent”), from Old English wīte (“punishment, pain, torment”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītī, from Proto-Germanic *wītiją, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, find, behold”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|wite|t=guilt, blameworthiness, blame, wrongdoing, misdeed, offense, punishment, retribution, fine, bote, customary rent}} Middle English wite (“guilt, blameworthiness, blame, wrongdoing, misdeed, offense, punishment, retribution, fine, bote, customary rent”), {{inh|en|ang|wīte|t=punishment, pain, torment}} Old English wīte (“punishment, pain, torment”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*wītī}} Proto-West Germanic *wītī, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*wītiją}} Proto-Germanic *wītiją, {{der|en|ine-pro|*weyd-|t=to see, find, behold}} Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, find, behold”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} wite (plural wites)
  1. (obsolete outside Scotland) Blame, responsibility, guilt.
    Sense id: en-wite-en-noun-~Ndb~4PS Categories (other): Scottish English
  2. Punishment, penalty, fine, bote, mulct.
    Sense id: en-wite-en-noun-nfxKe8SF
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /waɪt/ Forms: wites [present, singular, third-person], witing [participle, present], wited [participle, past], wited [past], or obsolete [archaic]
enPR: wīt Rhymes: -aɪt Etymology: From Middle English wīten (“to accuse, reproach, punish, suspect”), Old English wītan (“to look, behold, see, guard, keep, impute or ascribe to, accuse, reproach, blame”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītan, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną. Connected to Old English wīte, see below. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|wīten||to accuse, reproach, punish, suspect}} Middle English wīten (“to accuse, reproach, punish, suspect”), {{inh|en|ang|wītan||to look, behold, see, guard, keep, impute or ascribe to, accuse, reproach, blame}} Old English wītan (“to look, behold, see, guard, keep, impute or ascribe to, accuse, reproach, blame”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*wītan}} Proto-West Germanic *wītan, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*wītaną}} Proto-Germanic *wītaną, {{m|ang|wīte}} wīte Head templates: {{en-verb}} wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited)
  1. (chiefly Scotland) To regard (someone) as guilty, to accuse, to blame, to fault. Tags: Scotland, transitive
    Sense id: en-wite-en-verb-p-y7CNxa Categories (other): Scottish English
  2. To censure (someone); to mulct, to reproach. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-wite-en-verb-UHJcDH8W
  3. To guard (something); to keep, to observe, preserve, protect. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-wite-en-verb-RrvX~8HX
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: wyte
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /waɪt/ Forms: wites [present, singular, third-person], witing [participle, present], wited [participle, past], wited [past]
enPR: wīt Rhymes: -aɪt Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|witen}} Middle English witen, {{inh|en|ang|wītan|t=to see, accuse, go, depart}} Old English wītan (“to see, accuse, go, depart”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*wītan}} Proto-West Germanic *wītan, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*wītaną}} Proto-Germanic *wītaną, {{der|en|ine-pro|*weyd-|t=to see, find, behold}} Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, find, behold”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited)
  1. (obsolete or poetic) To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish Tags: obsolete, poetic
    Sense id: en-wite-en-verb-eOdR0aD0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English wite (“guilt, blameworthiness, blame, wrongdoing, misdeed, offense, punishment, retribution, fine, bote, customary rent”), from Old English wīte (“punishment, pain, torment”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītī, from Proto-Germanic *wītiją, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, find, behold”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wites",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wite (plural wites)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, The Project Gutenberg, Australia",
          "text": "Nor I will not suffer mine indignation so to witwanton with fair justice as persuade me to put the wite on Witchland.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Blame, responsibility, guilt."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Blame",
          "blame"
        ],
        [
          "responsibility",
          "responsibility"
        ],
        [
          "guilt",
          "guilt"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "obsolete outside Scotland",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete outside Scotland) Blame, responsibility, guilt."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Punishment, penalty, fine, bote, mulct."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Punishment",
          "punishment"
        ],
        [
          "penalty",
          "penalty"
        ],
        [
          "fine",
          "fine"
        ],
        [
          "bote",
          "bote"
        ],
        [
          "mulct",
          "mulct"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/waɪt/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪt"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "wight"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "(in accents with the wine-whine merger) white"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "wīt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wite"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "witen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English witen",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "wītan",
        "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": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "go",
          "go"
        ],
        [
          "depart",
          "depart"
        ],
        [
          "perish",
          "perish"
        ],
        [
          "vanish",
          "vanish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete or poetic) To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/waɪt/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪt"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "wight"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "(in accents with the wine-whine merger) white"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "wīt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wite"
}

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