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Wright vs Waight - What's the difference?

wright | waight |

As a proper noun wright

is from a maker of machinery; found in many combinations such as cartwright.

As a noun waight is

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wright

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wyrhta, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A builder or creator of something.
    • Derived terms
    * boatwright * cartwright * housewright * millwright * playwright * plowwright, ploughwright * shipwright * wainwright * wheelwright

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated)

    • waight

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1882-1889, author=Various, title=Old English Plays, Vol. I, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=This nobler resolution in you, Lords, Heartens me to disclose some thoughts that I-- The matter is of waight and dangerous. '' }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1884, author=George MacDonald, title=The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=By Heauen, thy madnesse shall be payed by waight , ] Till our Scale turnes the beame. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=, author=John Dee, title=The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Now, when you haue two thinges Miscible, whose degrees are * truely knowen: Of necessitie, either they are of one Quantitie and waight , or of diuerse. }}