wiethe

Yola

Alternative forms

• weithe, waithe

Etymology

From Middle English waiten (“to look at, behold”), from Anglo-Norman waiter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wiːt/
• Homophones: waaight, waaite, weate, whet, whit

Verb

wiethe (second-person singular simple present wiethest, present participle wietheen or wytheen, simple past wiethed)

1. to look

   Synonyms: dwyth, looke

Related terms

• waaite (“to attend on”)

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 78