witer
See also: Witer
Cebuano
editEtymology
editFrom English waiter. Replaced by weyter.
Pronunciation
edit- Hyphenation: wi‧ter
Noun
editwiter (feminine witres)
- (dated) a waiter; a male attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar
Quotations
editFor quotations using this term, see Citations:witer.
Old English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *witraz. Cognate with Old Norse vitr (“wise”).
Adjective
editwiter
Derived terms
edit- witran (“to inform”)
References
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “witter”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.