wite

Meanings

Verb

• To blame; regard as guilty, fault, accuse
• To reproach, censure, mulct
• To observe, keep, guard, preserve, protect
• To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish

Noun

• Blame, responsibility, guilt.
• Punishment, penalty, fine, bote, mulct.

Origin

• From Middle English wīten ("to accuse, reproach, punish, suspect"), Old English wītan ("to look, behold, see, guard, keep, impute or ascribe to, accuse, reproach, blame"), from Proto-West Germanic *wītan, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną. Connected to Old English wīte, see below.
• From Middle English wite, from Old English wīte, from Proto-West Germanic *wītī, from Proto-Germanic *wītiją, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd-.
• From Middle English witen, from Old English wītan, from Proto-West Germanic *wītan, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd-.