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Alteration of widder- in widdershins (a borrowing from Middle Low German) after the English cognate form wither- (“against, anti-”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alteration of widder- in widdershins (a borrowing from Middle Low German) after the English cognate form wither- (“against, anti-”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.