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Middle English
- ȝwete, huete, weete, wete, wheete, whet, whette, wheyte, wheytt, whiett, whyte
- quete, quheyt, qwet, qwhete (Northern)
- hwæte, hweate, hwete, whæte (Early Middle English)
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hwǣte, hwēte.
Pronunciation
Noun
whete (uncountable)
- Wheat (“plant of the genus Triticum”).
c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, , volume III, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Hosea VII:14, page 678, column 1:And thei crieden not to me in her herte, but ȝelliden in her beddis. Thei chewiden code on wheete, and wyn, and thei ȝeden awei fro me.- And they cried not to me from their hearts; but whined in their beds. They chewed cud on wheat, and wine, and they ran away from me.
- The grain resulting from wheat; corn.
c. 1375, “Book V”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2), Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 17, verso, lines 408-410; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:All þe wictalis owtane ſalt / Als quheyt and flour ⁊ meill ⁊ malt / In þe wyne sellar geꝛt he bꝛyng […]- All the food except for salt, / like wheat, flour, meal, and malt, / he went to put in the wine-cellar
c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, , volume I, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Genesis XLII:35, page 172, column 1:Thes thingis seid, whanne eche heelden out whete, thei founden in the mouth of the sackis boundun moneys.- These things said, when each poured out their corn, they found in the mouth of the sacks bound money.
- The better or more valuable part of something.
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