Whit

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late Middle English: apparently an alteration of obsolete wight ‘small amount’.


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From Middle English wiȝt, wight, from Old English wiht(“wight, person, creature, being, whit, thing, something, anything”), from Proto-Germanic *wihtą(“thing, creature”) or *wihtiz(“essence, object”), from Proto-Indo-European *wekti-(“cause, sake, thing”), from *wekʷ-(“to say, tell”). Cognate with Old High German wiht(“creature, thing”), Dutch wicht, German Wicht. Doublet of wight.

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whit (n.)

"smallest particle," 1520s, from na whit "no amount" (c. 1200), from Old English nan wiht, from wiht "amount," originally "person, human being" (see wight).