wich

See also: -wich

English

Pronunciation

• Homophones: which, witch

Etymology 1

Noun

wich (plural wiches)

1. Alternative form of wick (“bundle of thread”)

Etymology 2

Noun

wich (plural wiches)

1. Alternative form of wych (“brine spring or well”)
2. A wich town, particularly one of several former salt mining towns in Cheshire with a name ending -wich.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Edward Hughes, Studies in Administration and Finance 1558-1825, Manchester University Press, page 21:

     Droitwich was then clearly more important than any of the Cheshire wiches; indeed the two most northerly of them were reported in 1086 to be "utterly waste", while Nantwich farm was worth only £10 a year.

See also

• wich town

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

wich

1. first/third-person singular preterite of weichen

Luo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wìc/

Noun

wich (plural wiye)

1. head

Yola

Alternative forms

• which, whilke

Etymology

From Middle English which, whilk, from Old English hwelċ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɪt͡ʃ/, /ʍɪlk/

Determiner

wich

1. which

Pronoun

wich

1. which
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Wich ad wough bethther kwingokee or baagchoosee vursth?

     Whether had we better churn or bake first?

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 78

Yucatec Maya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wit͡ʃ/

Noun

wich (plural wichob)

1. eye