wight

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wight englannista suomeksi

  1. inehmo

  1. olento, olio, ihminen

wight englanniksi

  1. Wight

  1. A living creature, especially a being.

  2. (RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives)

  3. {{quote-text|en|year=1626|author=John Milton|title=s:On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough|section=verse vi

  4. (RQ:Scott Marmion)

  5. (RQ:Irving Sketch Book)

  6. (RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)

  7. (RQ:Charlotte Bronte Emma)

  8. c. 1872, a (w) cryptotour poem, possibly by (w), lines 1 and 2:

  9. "The man that hath no love of chess/Is truth to say a sorry wight."
  10. {{quote-text|en|year=1885|author=Richard F. Burton|title=The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night|section=Night 532

  11. A being of one of the Nine Worlds of Heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor.

  12. A ghost, deity or other supernatural entity.

  13. {{quote-text|en|year=1789|author=William Blake|title=Dream (Blake)|A Dream|lines=14–16

  14. {{quote-text|en|year=1869|translators=William Morris; Eiríkr Magnússon|title=Saga|Grettis Saga: The Story of Grettir the Strong|publisher=F. S. Ellis|page=49

  15. A wraith-like creature.

  16. Brave, valorous, strong.

  17. (RQ:Mlry MrtDrthr)/ and my yongest sone hyght Lauayne / and yf hit please yow / he shalle ryde with yow vnto that Iustes / and he is of his age x stronge and wyght

  18. Strong; stout; active.

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  20. A creature, a being.

  21. (RQ:Langland Piers Plowman)

  22. A person, a being.

  23. 1368-1372, Chaucer|Geoffrey Chaucer, ''Book of the Duchess|The Book of the Duchess'', line 579:

  24. (quote)
  25. 1379-1380, Chaucer|Geoffrey Chaucer, ''House of Fame|The House of Fame'', line 1830-1831:

  26. A demon, monster

  27. A small amount (of a quantity, length, distance or time); a whit.

  28. brave, bold

  29. powerful, strong, vigorous

  30. quick, speedy

  31. immediately

  32. vigorously