Wight Definition
(paganism) A being of one of the Nine Worlds of heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor.
(poetic) A ghost or other supernatural entity.
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Origin of Wight
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From Middle English, from Old English wiht (“wight, person, creature, being, whit, thing, something, anything"), from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz (“essence, object"), from Proto-Indo-European *wekti- (“cause, sake, thing"), from Proto-Indo-European *wekÊ·- (“to say, tell"). Cognate with Old High German wiht (“creature, thing"), Dutch wicht, German Wicht, Swedish vätte. See also whit.
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Middle English from Old Norse vīgt neuter of vīgr able to fight weik-3 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Middle English, from Old Norse vígt, neuter of vígr (“skilled in fighting, of age"), cognate with Old English wÄ«Ä¡.
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The meaning of the wraith-like creature is from barrow-wights in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth world.
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Middle English from Old English wiht wekti- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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