Etymology

witchspirit

W4I1T1C3H4S1P3I1R1I1T1

Today it means: The spirit of a witch. Full definition →

English spirit ← Middle English spirit ← Old French espirit
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

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. Proto-Indo-European*(s)peys-der.?
  9. Latinspīrō
  10. Latinspīritu
  11. Old Frenchespirit
  12. Middle Englishspirit
  13. Englishspirit
  14. English todaywitchspirit

From witch + spirit.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.