Etymology

witan

W4I1T1A1N1

Today it means: The Anglo-Saxon national council or witenagemot. Full definition →

Old English witan
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The story

  1. Old English · learned borrowing fromwitan
  2. English todaywitan

Learned borrowing from Old English witan, plural of wita (“wise man”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishwitan all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.