different between wisht vs wist

English

Adjective

wisht (comparative wishter, superlative wishtest)

1. (West Country, Cornwall, Devon) Sickly, weak.
   • 1897, Eden Phillpotts, Lying Prophets:

     “'Tweer wisht days for me, Mister Jan. I be such a poor lass in brains, an' I could awnly think of trouble 'cause I loved 'e so true. 'Tedn' like the same plaace when you'm away. Then I thot you'd gone right back to Lunnon, an' I judged my heart 'ud break for 'e, I did.”

Verb

wisht

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of wish
   • 1632, Vicars (translator), Virgil

     Great Tuscane dames, as she their towns past by, / Wisht her their daughter-in-law, but frustrately.

Synonyms

• wished

Anagrams

• Whits, swith, whist, whits, withs

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

Past indicative of wit: from Old English witan, from Proto-Germanic *witan?, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Cognate with Dutch weten, German wissen, Swedish veta, and Latin vide? (“I see”). Compare guide.

Verb

wist

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of wit
   • a1796, Robert Burns, "Bonie Jean: A Ballad", in Poems and Songs, P.F. Collier & Son (1909–14), Bartleby.com (2001), [1],

     And lang ere witless Jeanie wist, / Her heart was tint, her peace was stown!

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Did the maledicent Bodyguard, getting (as was too inevitable) better malediction than he gave, load his musketoon, and threaten to fire; and actually fire? Were wise who wist!

Etymology 2

A misunderstanding, or a joking use of the past indicative of wit: from Old English witan, from Proto-Germanic *witan?, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Cognate with Dutch weten, German wissen, Swedish veta, and Latin vide? (“I see”). Compare guide.

Verb

wist (third-person singular simple present wists, present participle wisting, simple past and past participle wisted)

1. (nonstandard, pseudo-archaic) To know, be aware of.

Usage notes

• This use of wist was never a part of the regular English language; rather, it resulted from the erroneous attempted use of archaisms.

Anagrams

• WITs, WSIT, wits

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st

Verb

wist

1. singular past indicative of weten
2. second- and third-person singular present indicative of wissen
3. (archaic) plural imperative of wissen

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wist/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *wistiz (“essence”).

Noun

wist f

1. being, existence
2. well-being

Declension

Derived terms

• andwist
• midwist
• samodwist

Descendants

• Middle English: wiste, wyste

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *wistiz (“food”).

Noun

wist f

1. provisions, food
2. feast, meal
3. delicacy
4. abundance, plenty

Declension