wit

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare.

Noun

 * 1)  Sanity.
 * 2)  The senses.
 * 3) Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
 * 4) The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
 * 5) Intelligence; common sense.
 * 6) Humour, especially when clever or quick.
 * 7) A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
 * 1) Intelligence; common sense.
 * 2) Humour, especially when clever or quick.
 * 3) A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
 * 1) Humour, especially when clever or quick.
 * 2) A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
 * 1) Humour, especially when clever or quick.
 * 2) A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
 * 1) A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
 * 1) A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
 * 1) A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
 * 1) A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
 * 1) A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:intelligence

Derived terms

 * have one’s wits about one
 * scare out of one’s wits
 * have one’s wits about one
 * scare out of one’s wits
 * have one’s wits about one
 * scare out of one’s wits
 * have one’s wits about one
 * scare out of one’s wits
 * have one’s wits about one
 * scare out of one’s wits
 * scare out of one’s wits
 * scare out of one’s wits
 * scare out of one’s wits
 * scare out of one’s wits
 * scare out of one’s wits
 * scare out of one’s wits

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: vid
 * Galician:, ,
 * Georgian: ჭკუა, გონება
 * German: von Sinnen, bei Sinnen
 * Italian:
 * Latvian:, saprāts
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:, , ,
 * Portuguese: mentalidade, sanidade
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: mentalidad,
 * Ukrainian:


 * Arabic: ,
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: vid
 * Galician:, intelecto
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:, intellekt
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:, , sutkaus
 * Georgian: გონებამახვილობა
 * German:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: atjautība
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, , , mentalidad, ,
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: vid
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀστεϊσμός
 * Italian: senso umoristico, motto di spirito,, prontezza di spirito,
 * Latin: argūtia, facetiae
 * Latvian: asprātība
 * Maori: ngutu atamai
 * Norwegian: vidd
 * Plautdietsch: Witsichkjeit
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, , ,


 * Catalan:
 * Esperanto: spritulo
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Latin: scurra
 * Latvian: asprātis
 * Maori: naho
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, , hilaro,

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬. Compare.

Verb

 * 1)   Know, be aware of.

Usage notes

 * As a preterite-present verb, the third-person singular indicative form is not but ; the plural indicative forms conform to the infinitive:, ,.
 * is now defective because, outside of conscious archaizing, it can only be used in the infinitive.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Yemeni Arabic: درى
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Latvian:, nojaust
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:

Etymology 3
From.

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) white

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from. The geminate is unexpected as the usual 🇨🇬 form is, from 🇨🇬.

The geminate is sometimes explained as being the result of, thus from a pre-Germanic.

Adjective

 * 1) white
 * 2)  legally obtained by having paid the appropriate taxes
 * 3)  having a white skin colour, light-skinned
 * 4)  having a relatively light skin colour
 * 5)  clear-lighted, not dark at all
 * 1)  having a white skin colour, light-skinned
 * 2)  having a relatively light skin colour
 * 3)  clear-lighted, not dark at all
 * 1)  having a relatively light skin colour
 * 2)  clear-lighted, not dark at all
 * 1)  clear-lighted, not dark at all

Usage notes

 * Since the 2010s, wit has come to be increasingly used in continental Dutch among youth and others (associated with social justice movements) as a more neutral alternative to the most commonly used, which is argued to be tainted by the colonial era (see 🇨🇬) and have a connotation of "cleanliness" and "purity" that wit does not have. See  on nlwiki.

Noun

 * 1)  white
 * 2)  (short for )
 * 3)  cocaine
 * 1)  cocaine
 * 1)  cocaine

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from , from.

Related to, and. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  ability to think and reason
 * 2)  knowledge

Etymology
Inherited from.

Numeral

 * 1)  eight

Etymology
From.

Numeral

 * 1)  eight

Etymology
From, from. The long-vowel variant is from, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) white
 * 2) clean
 * 3) pale (of skin)

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) mind, sanity

Etymology 2
From, from , from. Compare the first-person plural pronoun.

Pronoun

 * 1)   we twain, the two of us.

Etymology
From, from , from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Etymology
From, from , from a suffixed form of (see ). Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) we two

Etymology
Spelling variant of

Numeral

 * 1) eight

Etymology
From, whence also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) wide

Etymology 1
Probably from.

Noun

 * 1) origin, cause;
 * 2) base, foundation
 * 3) stem
 * 4) tree

Etymology 2
Probably related to. Compare 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to leave

Etymology
From, from. Accusative from, dative from.

Pronoun

 * 1) we two;

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) wheat