Talk:wight

Where is any reference to 'wight' in various poems about rustic villagers. It is / was common usage. — This unsigned comment was added by 2001:8003:2f58:f200:e1ec:b6ec:b078:6a1f (talk).

Perhaps you mean English noun sense 1 ("A living creature, especially a human being.")? If you have particular examples of usage, it would be great to add further citations to the page. -Stelio (talk) 10:07, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

wight serves as an adjective in this quote of Melville, does it not?

The quote in question

In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon,” says an old writer—of whose works I possess the only copy extant—“it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier.

I've moved it to the adjective area. What do y'all think of it?

Jerzy (talk) 07:28, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

I disagree. One might refer to "the carpenter Jesus" in the same way, but "carpenter" remains a noun. The quote reads to me as: "the wight called Death". -Stelio (talk) 00:45, 6 August 2020 (UTC)