wyspe
Middle English
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editEtymology
editPerhaps related to whisk (“bunch of twigs, hair”).[1] Cognate to Dutch wisp, dialectal Danish visp, Swedish visp, Norwegian Bokmål visp, etc.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwyspe (plural wyspes or wyspe)
- A package, stick or pile of straw, a wisp:
- (glassblowing, obsolete, rare) A fifteenth-century unit for measuring window glass.
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “wisp(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-28.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.