whete
Middle English
FWOTD – 24 January 2019
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hwǣte, hwēte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʍɛːt(ə)/
- (dialectal) IPA(key): /ˈwɛːt(ə)/, /ˈxwɛːt(ə)/
Noun
whete (uncountable)
- Wheat (“plant of the genus Triticum”).
- c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, editors, The Holy Bible, […], volume III, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, OCLC 459166891, Hosea VII:14, page 678, column 1:
- And thei crieden not to me in her herte, but ȝelliden in her beddis. Thei chewiden code on wheete, and wyn, and thei ȝeden awei fro me.
- And they cried not to me from their hearts; but whined in their beds. They chewed cud on wheat, and wine, and they ran away from me.
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- The grain resulting from wheat; corn.
- c. 1375, “Book V”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß […] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2), Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 17, verso, lines 408-410; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:
- All þe wictalis owtane ſalt / Als quheyt and flour ⁊ meill ⁊ malt / In þe wyne sellar geꝛt he bꝛyng […]
- All the food except for salt, / like wheat, flour, meal, and malt, / he went to put in the wine-cellar […]
- c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, editors, The Holy Bible, […], volume I, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, OCLC 459166891, Genesis XLII:35, page 172, column 1:
- Thes thingis seid, whanne eche heelden out whete, thei founden in the mouth of the sackis boundun moneys.
- These things said, when each poured out their corn, they found in the mouth of the sacks bound [i.e., bundled-up] money.
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- The better or more valuable part of something.
Derived terms
References
- “quhete” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- “white” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- “whēte, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 July 2018.
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