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English word weight comes from Old English (ca. 450-1100) wiht (Creature, person, thing, being Weight.)
wiht (Old English)
Creature, person, thing, being Weight.
wiȝt (Middle English)
weight (English)
(transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.. (transitive) To bias something; to slant.. (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.. (transitive, dyeing) To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.. (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.. (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics. [...]