Wt/sco/whit

See also: Wt/sco/Whit

Scots

Pronoun

Wt/sco/whit

1. (interrogative) That thing, event, circumstance, etc.: uised interrogatively in askin for the specification o an identity, quantity, quality, etc.
2. (relative, nonstandard) That; wha.

Adverb

whit (nae comparable)

1. In some manner or degree; in part; partly; usually followed by with.

   Whit a peety.

Determiner

whit

1. Which; which kynd o.

   Whit shirt are ye gaein tae weir?

Inglis

Etymology

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

• enPR: wĭt, hwĭt, IPA^(key): /wɪt/, /ʍɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt
• Homophone: wit (in accents wi the wine-whine merger)

Noon

whit (plural Wt/sco/whits)

1. wheet

   He worked tirelessly to collect and wind a ball of string eight feet around, and it matters not one whit.

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Middle Inglis

Etymology

Frae Old English hwit.

Adjective

whit

1. white

Descendants

• Inglis: white