Define:Whit
Relatit: Whit
Scots eedit
Pronoun eedit
Whit
- (interrogative) That thing, event, circumstance, etc.:
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- (relative, nonstandard) That; wha.
Adverb eedit
Whit (nae comparable)
- In some manner or degree; in part; partly; usually followed by with.
Determiner eedit
Whit
Inglis eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Middle Inglis, frae Old English wiht (“wight, person, creature, being, whit, thing, something, anything”), frae Proto-Germanic *wihtą (“thing, craitur”) or Proto-Germanic *wihtiz (“essence, object”), frae Proto-Indo-European *wekti- (“cause, sake, thing”), frae Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (“tae say, tell”). Cognate wi Old High German wiht (“craitur, thing”), Dutch wicht, German Wicht. See an aa wight.
Pronunciation eedit
- enPR: wĭt, hwĭt, /wɪt/
- (deprecatit uise o
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Noon eedit
Whit (plural Whits)
- wheet
- He worked tirelessly to collect and wind a ball of string eight feet around, and it matters not one whit.
Middle Inglis eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Old English hwit.
Adjective eedit
Whit
Descendants eedit
- Inglis: white