Wight
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wight/wʌɪt/
▶noun
- 1 archaic or dialect a person of a specified kind: an unlucky wight.
- 2 literary a spirit or ghost.
– origin OE wiht ‘thing, creature’, of Gmc origin.
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