wight
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1.
A living creature, especially a human being.
古体The man that hath no love of chess/Is truth to say a sorry wight.
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2.
A supernatural being, often used in compounds such as the land-vættr which guard the land, especially the four guardians of Iceland.
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3.
A ghost, deity or other supernatural entity.
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4.
A wraith-like creature.
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Brave, valorous, strong.
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2.
Strong; stout; active.
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From Middle English wight, wiȝt, from Old English wiht (“thing, creature”), from Proto-West Germanic *wihti, from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz (“thing, creature”, literally “being”), from Proto-Indo-European *wekti- (“cause, sake, thing”), from *wekʷ- (“to say, tell”). Cognate with Scots wicht (“creature, being, human”), Dutch wicht (“child, baby, girl”), German Low German Wicht (“girl; wight”), German Wicht (“wretch, wight, little creature, scoundrel”), Danish vætte (“underground creature, gnome”), Norwegian Bokmål vette (“underground creature, gnome”), Swedish vätte (“underground creature, gnome”), Icelandic vættur (“imp, elf”). Doublet of whit.
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