owiht

Old English

Etymology

Variant of āwiht

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈoː.wixt/, [ˈoː.wiçt]

Pronoun

ōwiht

  1. aught, anything
    • 10th century, The Seafarer:
      Ne biþ him tō hearpan hyġe, ne tō hringþege, ne tō wīfe wyn, ne tō worulde hyht, ne ymbe ōwiht elles, nefne ymb ȳða ġewealc, ac ā hafað longunge sē þe on lagu fundað.
      His mind is not for a harp, nor for a gift of ring, nor for a wife’s mirth, nor for world’s hope, nor about anything else, unless about the rolling of waves, but he always has a longing, the one who rushes onto the sea.

Declension

Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative ōwiht —
accusative ōwiht —
genitive ōwihtes —
dative ōwihte —
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