wyte

English

Verb

wyte (third-person singular simple present wytes, present participle wyting, simple past and past participle wyted)

1. Alternative spelling of wite.
   • 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, verso:

     [U]niuſtly thou doeſt vvyte them all, / For that vvhich thou miſlikedſt in a fevv.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52, page 459:

     [H]e gan fovvly vvyte / His vvicked fortune, that had turnd aſlope, / And curſed night, that reſt from him ſo goodly ſcope.

Noun

wyte

1. Alternative spelling of wite.

Anagrams

• twey

Scots

Etymology

From Old English wītan, from Proto-West Germanic *wītan, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wəit/

Verb

wyte (third-person singular simple present wytes, present participle wytin, simple past and past participle wytit)

1. to blame
   • 1817, Rob Roy, Walter Scott, II.1:

     Na, na, sir–nae man can wyte me wi' theft.

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