Definitions
Person or being, especially in archaic use.
Word origin
From Middle English wight, wiȝt, from Old English wiht (“thing, creature”), from Proto-West Germanic *wihti, from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz (“thing, creature”, literally “being”), from Proto-Indo-European *wekti- (“cause, sake, thing”), from *wekʷ- (“to say, tell”).
Used in a sentence
“O bace gongarian wight, wilt thou the ſpicket willd?”
“Oh ſay me true if thou wert mortal wight And why from us ſo quickly thou didſt take thy flight.”
“But woe betide the wandering wight, / That treads its circle in the night.”
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