Whit
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late Middle English: apparently an alteration of obsolete wight ‘small amount’.
wiktionary
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.
whit
etymonline
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).
