adj.
'knowing' (Modern English )
PGmc Ancestor
*wit-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
vitr ‘wise’
(ONP vitr (adj.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Far vitur, Ice vitur, ODan witær, OSw viter, Sw vitter
OE Cognate
cp. witran (v.) 'verare, to speak the truth'; wita (n.) ‘wise man’, witan (v.) ‘to know’
Phonological and morphological markers
Summary category
CC1
First attested in late OE (see Hofmann §386, Peters 98, SPS); it is attested in the SWM in early ME (LB, AW), but in the later period it is mainly N/EM.
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
WA 629