witer
See also: Witer
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
From English waiter. Replaced by weyter.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: wi‧ter
Noun edit
witer (feminine witres)
- (dated) a waiter; a male attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:witer.
Old English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *witraz. Cognate with Old Norse vitr (“wise”).
Adjective edit
witer
Derived terms edit
- witran (“to inform”)
References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “witter”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.