Etymology

witchery

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Today it means: Witchcraft. Full definition →

English witch ← Middle English wicche ← Old English wiċċa
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The story

  1. Old Englishwiċċe
  2. Proto-Germanic*wikkōną
  3. Proto-West Germanic*wikkōn
  4. Proto-West Germanic*wikkō
  5. Old Englishwiċċa
  6. Middle Englishwicche
  7. Englishwitch
  8. English todaywitchery

From witch + -ery.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.