atwite

verb

Etymology

PIE word *h₂éd From Middle English atwiten (“to attribute (something) to someone; to blame (something) on someone; to accuse or charge (someone) with something; to speak ill of; to taunt”), from Old English ætwītan (“to blame, reproach; to censure, upbraid; to taunt”), from æt- (prefix meaning ‘at, near; toward’) + wītan (“to accuse; to blame, reproach”) (from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to punish; to torment; to know; to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”)). The English word is analysable as at- + wite.

  1. inherited from *weyd- — “to see
  2. inherited from *wītaną — “to punish; to torment; to know; to see
  3. inherited from ætwītan — “to blame, reproach; to censure, upbraid; to taunt
  4. inherited from atwiten — “to attribute (something) to someone; to blame (something) on someone; to accuse or charge (someone) with something; to speak ill of; to taunt

Definitions

  1. To blame or reproach (someone)

    To blame or reproach (someone); to twit.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for atwite. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA