whit

名词 n. 介词 prep.
中文释义
发音 wĭt

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota. dated
    — Star. I beleeue we muſt leaue the killing out, when all is done. Bot. Not a whit: I haue a deuice to make all well.
介词 prep.
  1. Pronunciation spelling of with. alt-of,pronunciation-spelling

词形变化

whits plural

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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