wyspe

See also: wyspę and Wyspę

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perhaps related to whisk (“bunch of twigs, hair”).[1] Cognate to Dutch wisp, dialectal Danish visp, Swedish visp, Norwegian Bokmål visp, etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wisp/, /wips/

Noun

wyspe (plural wyspes or wyspe)

  1. A package, stick or pile of straw, a wisp:
    1. Such a bundle used to clean livestock of dirt.
    2. (rare) Such a bundle shaped into a circle or torus.
    3. (rare) Such a bundle lighted afire and used as a light source.
  2. (rare, glassblowing) A fifteenth-century unit for measuring window glass.
    Coordinate terms: ponder, shev

Descendants

  • English: wisp
  • Scots: wisp, wusp

References

  1. ^ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Wyspe”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
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