wyspe

See also: wyspę and Wyspę

Middle English

Alternative forms

wips, wisp, wysp, wispe, wippis, wesp

Etymology

Perhaps related to whisk (“bunch of twigs, hair”).[1] Cognate to Dutch wisp, dialectal Danish visp, Swedish visp, Norwegian Bokmål visp, etc.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /wisp/, /wips/

Noun

wyspe (plural wyspes or wyspe)

A package, stick or pile of straw, a wisp:
1. Such a bundle used to clean livestock of dirt.
2. (rare) Such a bundle shaped into a circle or torus.
3. (rare) Such a bundle lighted afire and used as a light source.
(rare) A unit used for measuring glass.

Descendants

English: wisp
Scots: wisp, wusp

References

“wisp(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-28.

Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

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