whit

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Whitsunday.

   Holonyms: Pentecost, Whitsun, Whitsuntide, Whit (season).

2. 2
   noun

   The season of Whitsuntide.

   Meronyms: Pentecost, Whitsun, Whit (day).

From Middle English wiȝt, wight, from Old English wiht (“wight, person, creature, being, whit, thing, something, anything”), from Proto-Germanic *wihtą (“thing, creature”) or *wihtiz (“essence, object”), from Proto-Indo-European *wekti- (“cause, sake, thing”), from *wekʷ- (“to say, tell”). Cognate with Old High German wiht (“creature, thing”), Dutch wicht, German Wicht. Doublet of wight.

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