whit

FREQ #14715

n. 些微, 一点点

发音

/wɪt/
/ʍɪt/

词形变化

whits 复数 whits

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.

prep.
  1. 1.

    Pronunciation spelling of with.

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词源

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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