wayth

n.

‘(meat gained in) hunting’ (Modern English waith)

Etymology

cp. OIcel veiðr ‘a catch, hunting, fishing’ < PGmc *waiþjō; cp. OE wāð ‘wandering, hunting’ (< *waiþō), OS wēth- ‘pasture’, OHG weida ‘hunting; pasture, food’. 

PGmc Ancestor

*waiþjō

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

veiðr ‘a catch, hunting, fishing’ 
(ONP veiðr (sb.))

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

Far veiði, veiða, Icel veiði, veiður, Norw veidd, Sw veydhe

OE Cognate

wāð ‘wandering, hunting’

Phonological and morphological markers

ON /ei/ &lt; PGmc */ai/

Summary category

A1*bc

Attestation

N and alliterative only in ME literature; and confined to the NW (Lan., Cum.) in names cited by EPNE.

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

Gaw 1381

Bibliography

MED waith (n.) , OED waith (n.1) , HTOED , Dance wayth, Bj. 52-3, 167, de Vries veiða (veiði, veiðr), Mag. veiði, Bj-L. veide, Orel *waiþiz ~ *waiþ(j)ō, AEW wāð, EPNE veiðr