*wihtą

Runic: ᚹᛁᚺᛏᚨ Pronunciation: /ˈwix.tɑ̃/

noun · neuter · a-stem

Meanings

thing, creature

Most likely from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-ti- (‘entity, thing’), and cognate with Old Church Slavonic вещь (veštĭ) (veštĭ, ‘thing’).

In addition to the above theory, Kroonen also compares *weganą (‘to carry, to move’) (cognate with Proto-Celtic *wextā (‘time, course, run’)).

wiht (Old English)
- wight, wiȝt (Middle English)
  - wight, whit (English)
  - wicht, wycht (Scots)
? (Old Frisian)
- Wucht (Saterland Frisian)
? (Old Saxon)
- wicht (Dutch Low Saxon)
*wiht (Old Dutch)
- wicht, wecht (Middle Dutch)
  - wicht (Dutch)
    - wig (Afrikaans)
    - wäxt (Jersey Dutch)
wiht (Old High German)
- wiht (Middle High German)
  - Wicht (German)
𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄 (waiht) (Gothic)