The story
- Old English · inherited fromwiþþe“tie, band”
- English todaywythe
Uncertain. * Perhaps an alteration of width. * Perhaps related to withe (“flexible twig; band of twigs”), from Old English wiþþe (“tie, band”). The chimney-partition sense may derive from the fact that a single wythe or thickness of brick has often been used for such partitions.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishwiþþe all →
withwithe
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.