witer

From English waiter. Replaced by weyter.

• Hyphenation: wi‧ter

witer (feminine witres)

1. (dated) a waiter; a male attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar

For quotations using this term, see Citations:witer.

• witter

From Proto-Germanic *witraz. Cognate with Old Norse vitr (“wise”).

witer

1. knowing, wise

• witran (“to inform”)

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “witter”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.