wite

• enPR: wīt, IPA^(key): /waɪt/
• Rhymes: -aɪt
• Homophone: wight; (in accents with the wine-whine merger) white

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.

• wyte

wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited) (transitive, archaic or obsolete)

1. (chiefly Scotland) To regard (someone) as guilty, to accuse, to blame, to fault.
2. To censure (someone); to mulct, to reproach.
   • 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, verso:

     [U]niuſtly thou doeſt vvyte them all, / For that vvhich thou miſlikedſt in a fevv.

3. To guard (something); to keep, to observe, preserve, protect.

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”).

wite (plural wites)

1. (obsolete outside Scotland) Blame, responsibility, guilt.
   • 1922, E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, The Project Gutenberg, Australia:

     Nor I will not suffer mine indignation so to witwanton with fair justice as persuade me to put the wite on Witchland.

2. Punishment, penalty, fine, bote, mulct.

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”).

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

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiːt(ə)/

From Old English wīte, from Proto-West Germanic *wītī, from Proto-Germanic *wītiją.

• wyte

wite (plural wites)

1. punishment, retribution

• English: wite
• Yola: lotherwite

• “wīte, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

wite

1. Alternative form of whit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buʀtaq.

wite

1. earth
2. soil
3. land

• Muna Dictionary – wite. SIL International.

From Proto-West Germanic *wītī, from Proto-Germanic *wītiją. Cognate with Old Frisian wīte, Old Saxon wīti, Old High German wīzi, Old Norse víti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiː.te/

wīte n (nominative plural wītu)

1. punishment
2. penalty, fine
3. torment

• → Medieval Latin: wīta

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.tɛ/
• Rhymes: -itɛ
• Syllabification: wi‧te

wite

1. inflection of wity:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

wite

1. Alternative form of wyte

wite

1. Alternative form of witte