wit

Middle English

/wit/

pronoun
Definitions
  • First-person dual pronoun: we twain, the two of us.

Etymology

Inherited from Old English wit (we two) inherited from *wit inherited from Proto-Germanic *wet.

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*wet

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