Isle-of-wight
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[wahyt] /waɪt/
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Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
/waɪt/
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(archaic) a human being
/waɪt/
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(archaic) strong and brave; valiant
/waɪt/
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Isle of Wight, an island and county of S England in the English Channel. Administrative centre: Newport. Pop: 136 300 (2003 est). Area: 380 sq km (147 sq miles)
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See (Isle of) Wight
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Old English wiht “living being, creature,” from Proto-Germanic *wekhtiz (cf. Old Saxon wiht “thing, demon,” Dutch wicht “a little child,” Old High German wiht “thing, creature, demon,” German Wicht “creature, infant,” Old Norse vettr “thing, creature,” Swedish vätte “spirit of the earth, gnome,” Gothic waihts “something”). The only apparent cognate outside Germanic is Old Church Slavonic vešti “a thing.” Not related to the Isle of Wight, which is from Latin Vectis (c.150), originally Celtic, possibly meaning “place of the division.”
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