wid

Variant of with.

• enPR: wĭd, IPA^(key): /wɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

wid

1. (regional) Pronunciation spelling of with.
   • 1893, Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets [1]

     “An’ wid all d’ bringin’ up she had, how could she?” moaningly she asked of her son. “Wid all d’ talkin’ wid her I did an’ d’ t’ings I tol’ her to remember. When a girl is bringed up d’ way I bringed up Maggie, how kin she go teh d’ devil?”

   • 1922, Eugene O'Neill, The Hairy Ape, [2]

     Oh, there was fine beautiful ships them days—clippers wid tall masts touching the sky—fine strong men in them—men that was sons of the sea as if ’twas the mother that bore them.

   • 1940, Shirley Graham, “It’s Morning,” in Black Female Playwrights, Kathy A Perkins ed. [3]

     Cissie. But, when da saints ob God go marchin’ home

     Mah gal will sing! Wid all da pure, bright stars,

     Tuhgedder wid da mawnin’ stars—She’ll sing!

   • 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:

     What's wid you, wise guy?

• See with

• D.W.I., DWI, IWD, WDI, dwi-

• wit

wid

1. with

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 372.

Derived from English with.

wid

1. with
   • 2023, Yuunivorshal Deklarieshan a Yuuman Raits, United Nations, Aatikl 17:

     Evribadi av di rait fi uon prapati bai demself ar wid ada piipl.

     Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

     (literally, “Everybody have the right to own property by themselves or with other people.”)

• wid at majstro.com

From Proto-Germanic *wīdaz. Cognate with Old Frisian wīd, Old Saxon wīdo and Old Dutch wīdo, Old High German wīt, Old Norse víðr.

• IPA^(key): /wiːd/

wīd

1. wide, far

   wīdcūþ ― widely known, famous

   wīdfæþme ― ample, far-reaching, extensive

   wīdmǣrsian ― to publish, widely proclaim

• wīdsīþ

• Middle English: wid, wyd
  • English: wide
  • Scots: wid, wyd

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vȋdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wéiˀdas, from Proto-Indo-European *wéyd-o-s, from *weyd- (“to see”). Cognate to Czech vid, Russian вид (vid) and Lithuanian véidas.

• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: wid
• Homophone: Wit

wid m animal

1. (obsolete) apparition, phantom, spectre

   Synonyms: widmo, widziadło, zjawa, zwid

wid m inan

1. (obsolete) appearance (the way something looks; personal presence)

   Synonyms: aparycja, powierzchowność, wygląd

2. (Far Masovian, chiefly in set phrases) sight (information of someone's pressence detected by the eye)

   Coordinate term: słych

   Ani widu, ani slychu. ― (I) haven't seen or heard (it).

• wid in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Antoni Waga (1860), “wid”, in “Abecadłowy spis wyrazów ludowego języka w okolicach Łomży, Wizny i przyległych”, in Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki, editor, Biblioteka Warszawska (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 759