fulwiht

Old English

Alternative forms

• fulht, fullwiht, fullwuht, fulluht, fulwihð, fulwuht
• fulluiht, fuluiht, fulwuiht, fwlwiht — Anglian

Etymology

An old compound from fulwian, fulliġan (“to baptize”) +‎ -þ, as if Proto-West Germanic *fullawīhiþu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfulˌwixt/, [ˈfulˌwiçt]

Noun

fulwiht n or f

1. baptism

   Paulinus bisċep ġehwerfde Edwine Norþhymbra cyning tō fulwihte.

   Paulinus the Bishop convinced King Edwin of Northumbria to get baptized.

   (literally, “Paulinus the Bishop converted King Edwin of Northumbria to baptism.”)

   • late 9th century, Old English Martyrology

     On þǣm dæġe Crīst onfeng þā ealdan ymbsnidenysse ond þā ealdan clǣsnunge Iūdea folces, þæt þonne wæs þæt hīe æġhwelċum cnihtċilde ymbsnidon þæt werlīċe līm on þǣm eahteðan dæġe æfter his acennisse, ond sēo clǣsnung him wæs swā hȧliġ swā ūs is fullwiht...

     On that day Christ underwent the traditional circumcision and purification of the Judean folk, which was that manly limb of each of their male children was circumcised on the eighth day after his bird, and the purification was as holy as baptism is for us...

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	fulwiht	fulwihtu
accusative	fulwiht	fulwihtu
genitive	fulwihtes	fulwihta
dative	fulwihte	fulwihtum

Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	fulwiht	fulwihta, fulwihte
accusative	fulwihte	fulwihta, fulwihte
genitive	fulwihte	fulwihta
dative	fulwihte	fulwihtum

Derived terms

• fulwihtfæder
• fulwihtan

Descendants

• Middle English: fulloght, folht, follauȝt, follaut, folloȝt, fulloȝt, fullouȝt, fulloutht, fulout, vollouth, fuleht, fulht, fulluhht, fulluht (Early Middle English), folghþe, follouȝt, foluþe, fullogh, fullogth, volloȝt (Late Middle English)

References

• Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “fulluht, fulwiht”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to Le ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.