[Mid] Middle-English Word of the Day - January 15, 2008

Wightly (adv.) - actively, swiftly, strongly.

Be it worthly wroght even at thyne awne will,
For fadir, att thi bidding am I buxum and bayne.
Now /wightely/ agayne will I wende
Vnto my discipilis so dere.

- Anonymous: The York plays (1440)

Pronunciation: /wihtli/

Key
/w/ w in we, away
/i/ i in machine
/h/ h in hat, ahead
/t/ t in tie
/l/ l in lily

The Middle-English Word of the Day is selected from Mayhew and
Skeat's "Concise Dictionary of Middle English", as found on Greg
Lindahl's website
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/concise/concise.html

The example text was found at the Middle English Collection of the
University of Virginia Library.
http://etext.virginia.edu/collections/languages/english/
mideng.browse.html

The approximate pronunciation is determined using Carol Hamill's
Middle English Pronunciation Guide
and noted using upon the ASCII-IPA Standard
http://www.island.net/~hamill/medieval/mepronunc.html
http://www.kirshenbaum.net/IPA/

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