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• homophone: whit (wine–whine merger)
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• homophone: with (US, th-stopping)
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From Middle English wit, witt, wyt, from Old English witt (“mind, sanity, sense, understanding”), from Proto-West Germanic *witi, from Proto-Germanic *witją (“knowledge; reason; wit”), from Proto-Germanic *witaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde (“to know”), from *weyd- (“to see”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch wit (“knowledge”), German and Luxembourgish Witz (“joke; humour, wit”), Low German Weet (“knowledge; idea; inkling”), Yiddish וויץ (vits, “joke”), Danish vid (“wit”), Faroese and Icelandic vit (“intelligence, wits; reason, sense; knowledge; awareness, sentience”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish vett (“intelligence, sense, wit”), Norwegian Nynorsk vett, vit (“sense, wits”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌹 (unwiti, “folly, ignorance”); also Breton gouzout (“to know”), Cornish godhvos, goffos (“to know”), Irish feadair (“to know”), Welsh gwybod (“to know”), Latin videō (“to see”), Ancient Greek οἶδ’ (oîd’), οἶδα (oîda, “to know”), Albanian vizë (“line, stripe, track; dash”), Latvian veids (“form, kind, mode, type”), Lithuanian veidas (“face; front; appearance, aspect, look”), Belarusian ве́даць (vjédacʹ, “to know”), Bulgarian вям (vjam, “to know”), Czech vědět (“to know”), Polish wiedzieć (“to know”), Russian ве́дать (védatʹ, “to know”), Serbo-Croatian vedeti, viedieti (“to know”), Slovak vedieť (“to know”), Slovene vedeti (“to know”), Ukrainian ві́дати (vídaty, “to know; to deal, manage”), Armenian գիտեմ (gitem, “I know”), գիտենալ (gitenal), գիտնալ (gitnal, “to know”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬉𐬛 (vaēd, “find”), 𐬬𐬌𐬛 (vid, “know, understand”), Persian نوید (navid / nawīd, nuwēd, “invitation; annunciation; good news”), Tocharian A ime (“awareness, consciousness, memory, thought”), Tocharian B īme (“awareness, consciousness, memory, thought”), ūwe (“educated, knowledgeable, learned”), Sanskrit विद् (vid, “to know; to find; to consider as”). Compare wise.

From with.

From Middle English witen, woten, from Old English weotan, witan, from Proto-West Germanic *witan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde (“to know”), from *weyd- (“to see”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian waase, wed, weet (“to know”), Saterland Frisian wíete (“to know”), West Frisian wite, witte (“to know”), Alemannic German wüsse (“to know”), Cimbrian bizzan (“to know”), Dutch and Low German weten (“to know”), German wissen (“to know”), Limburgish wéïte (“to know; to remember”), Luxembourgish wëssen (“to know”), Vilamovian wysa, wyssa (“to know”), Yiddish וויסן (visn, “to know”), Danish vide (“to know”), Elfdalian witå (“to know”), Faroese and Icelandic vita (“to know”), Jutish veer (“to know”), Norwegian Bokmål vide, vite (“to know”), Norwegian Nynorsk veta, vita, våtå (“to know”), Scanian veda (“to know”), Swedish veta (“to know”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (witan, “to know”); also Breton gouzout (“to know”), Cornish godhvos, goffos (“to know”), Irish feadair (“to know”), Welsh gwybod (“to know”), Latin videō (“to see”), Ancient Greek οἶδ’ (oîd’), οἶδα (oîda, “to know”), Albanian vizë (“line, stripe, track; dash”), Latvian veids (“form, kind, mode, type”), Lithuanian veidas (“face; front; appearance, aspect, look”), Belarusian ве́даць (vjédacʹ, “to know”), Bulgarian вям (vjam, “to know”), Czech vědět (“to know”), Polish wiedzieć (“to know”), Russian ве́дать (védatʹ, “to know”), Serbo-Croatian vedeti, viedieti (“to know”), Slovak vedieť (“to know”), Slovene vedeti (“to know”), Ukrainian ві́дати (vídaty, “to know; to deal, manage”), Armenian գիտեմ (gitem, “I know”), գիտենալ (gitenal), գիտնալ (gitnal, “to know”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬉𐬛 (vaēd, “find”), 𐬬𐬌𐬛 (vid, “know, understand”), Persian نوید (navid / nawīd, nuwēd, “invitation; annunciation; good news”), Tocharian A ime (“awareness, consciousness, memory, thought”), Tocharian B īme (“awareness, consciousness, memory, thought”), ūwe (“educated, knowledgeable, learned”), Sanskrit विद् (vid, “to know; to find; to consider as”). Compare guide.

116 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: խելք (xelkʻ) — mind; sanity
• Bulgarian: разум (razum) — mind; sanity
• Catalan: ment — mind; sanity
• Catalan: enteniment — mind; sanity
• Czech: rozum — mind; sanity
• Danish: vid — mind; sanity
• Galician: mentalidade — mind; sanity
• Galician: siso — mind; sanity
• Galician: entendemento — mind; sanity
• Georgian: ჭკუა (č̣ḳua) — mind; sanity
• Georgian: გონება (goneba) — mind; sanity
• German: von Sinnen — mind; sanity
• German: bei Sinnen — mind; sanity
• Italian: senno — mind; sanity
• Latvian: prāts — mind; sanity
• Latvian: saprāts — mind; sanity
• Norwegian: vett — mind; sanity
• Occitan: esperit — mind; sanity
• Occitan: sen — mind; sanity
• Occitan: èime — mind; sanity
• Occitan: ment — mind; sanity
• Portuguese: mentalidade — mind; sanity
• Portuguese: sanidade — mind; sanity
• Russian: ра́зум (rázum) — mind; sanity
• Spanish: mentalidad — mind; sanity
• Spanish: cordura — mind; sanity
• Ukrainian: розум (rozum) — mind; sanity
• Arabic: وعي — intellectual ability
• Arabic: إدراك — intellectual ability
• Armenian: խելք (xelkʻ) — intellectual ability
• Bulgarian: ум (um) — intellectual ability
• Danish: vid — intellectual ability
• Galician: siso — intellectual ability
• Galician: intelecto — intellectual ability
• German: Verstand — intellectual ability
• German: Intellekt — intellectual ability
• Italian: arguzia — intellectual ability
• Latin: ingenium — intellectual ability
• Norwegian: forstand — intellectual ability
• Norwegian: intellekt — intellectual ability
• Portuguese: intelectual — intellectual ability
• Portuguese: intelecto — intellectual ability
• Russian: ум (um) — intellectual ability
• Spanish: intelectualidad — intellectual ability
• Spanish: intelecto — intellectual ability
• Bulgarian: съобразителност (sǎobrazitelnost) — Ability to think quickly
• Czech: vtip — Ability to think quickly
• Czech: důvtip — Ability to think quickly
• Esperanto: sprito — Ability to think quickly
• Finnish: sukkeluus — Ability to think quickly
• Finnish: nokkeluus — Ability to think quickly
• Finnish: sutkaus — Ability to think quickly
• Georgian: გონებამახვილობა (gonebamaxviloba) — Ability to think quickly
• German: Auffassungsgabe — Ability to think quickly
• Italian: arguzia — Ability to think quickly
• Italian: genio — Ability to think quickly
• Italian: acutezza — Ability to think quickly
• Korean: 눈치 (nunchi) — Ability to think quickly
• Latvian: atjautība — Ability to think quickly
• Portuguese: agudeza — Ability to think quickly
• Portuguese: agudez — Ability to think quickly
• Portuguese: esperteza — Ability to think quickly
• Romanian: schepsis — Ability to think quickly
• Russian: ум (um) — Ability to think quickly
• Spanish: agudeza — Ability to think quickly
• Spanish: inteligencia — Ability to think quickly
• Spanish: ingenio — Ability to think quickly
• Spanish: mentalidad — Ability to think quickly
• Spanish: gracia — Ability to think quickly
• Spanish: listeza — Ability to think quickly
• Turkish: nükte — Ability to think quickly
• Bulgarian: остроу́мие (ostroúmie) — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Czech: vtip — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Czech: humor — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Danish: vid — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Esperanto: humuro — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• French: mot d'esprit — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• German: Witz — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Ancient Greek: ἀστεϊσμός (asteïsmós) — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Italian: senso umoristico — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Italian: motto di spirito — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Italian: spirito — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Italian: prontezza di spirito — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Italian: brio — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Latin: argūtia — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Latin: facetiae — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Latvian: asprātība — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Māori: ngutu atamai — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Norwegian: vidd — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Plautdietsch: Witsichkjeit — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Portuguese: humorístico — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Portuguese: humor — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Portuguese: engraçado — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Russian: остроу́мие (ostroúmije) — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Spanish: humor — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Spanish: gracia — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Spanish: mordacidad — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Spanish: chiste espontáneo — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Spanish: gracejo — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Spanish: donaire — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Spanish: donosura — Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly
• Catalan: divertit — A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes
• Esperanto: spritulo — A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes
• French: petit malin — A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes
• German: Witzbold — A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes
• Italian: ilare — A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes
• Italian: battuta — A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes
• Italian: facezia — A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes
• Italian: spiritosaggine — A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes
• Italian: freddura — A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes
• Latin: scurra — A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes
• Latvian: asprātis — A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes
• Māori: naho — A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes
• Russian: остря́к (ostrják) — A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes
• Spanish: imaginativo — A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes
• Spanish: divertido — A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes