different between greet vs wisha

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English greten, from Old English gr?tan, from Proto-Germanic *gr?tijan?.

Verb

greet (third-person singular simple present greets, present participle greeting, simple past and past participle greeted)

1. (transitive) To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means such as writing.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act III, scene 1

     My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.

2. (transitive) To arrive at or reach, or meet.
   • 1707, Joseph Addison, Rosamond, Act I, scene 4

     In vain the spring my senses greets.

   • 2009, Loren Long, ?Phil Bildner, Magic in the Outfield (page 47)

     Way deep in left field, where the carpet of green sloped upward to a terrace and greeted the thick line of trees, he reached out his glove.

3. (transitive) To accost; to address.
   • 1725, Alexander Pope translating Homer, Odyssey

     Fair on his feet the polish'd sandals shine,
     And thus he greets the master of the swine:

4. (intransitive, archaic) To meet and give salutations.
   • circa 1590, William Shakespeare, Titus Adronicus, Act I, scene 2, line 90

     There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace.

5. (transitive) To be perceived by (somebody).

Conjugation

Derived terms

• greeter
• meet-and-greet
• regreet

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English greet, grete (“great”).

Adjective

greet (comparative more greet, superlative most greet)

1. (obsolete outside Scotland) Great.

Etymology 3

From a blend of two Old English verbs, gr?tan, gr?tan (itself from Proto-Germanic *gr?tan?); and of Old English gr?otan (itself from Proto-Germanic *greutan?), both meaning "to weep, lament".

Verb

greet (third-person singular simple present greets, present participle greeting, simple past and past participle greeted or grat or grutten)

2. (Scotland, Northern England) To weep; to cry.
   • 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), page 312:

     And damn't! if he didn't take down her bit things and scone her so sore she grat like a bairn [...].

   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 2:

     My maw went potty and started greeting.

Related terms

• regret

Noun

greet (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Mourning, weeping, lamentation.

Further reading

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• greet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Geter, egret, reget

Middle English

Alternative forms

• grete

Etymology

From Old English gr?at, in turn from Proto-Germanic *grautaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??t/

Adjective

greet (plural and weak singular greete, comparative greter, superlative gretest)

1. great (large, significant)

Descendants

• English: great
  • ? Welsh: grêt
• Scots: great, greet, grete, greit

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rit/

Etymology 1

From a blend of two Old English verbs, gr?tan (cognate with Swedish gråta', Danish græde) and gr?otan (of uncertain ultimate origin), both ‘weep, lament’.

Verb

greet (third-person singular present greets, present participle greetin, past grat or grettit, past participle grutten)

1. to weep, lament

Noun

greet (uncountable)

1. cry, lamentation

Etymology 2

Adjective

greet (comparative greeter, superlative greetest)

1. Alternative form of great

English

Etymology

From Irish mhuise, originally a euphemism for A Mhuire! (“O Mary!”) in calling upon the Virgin Mary. Compare Irish muise.

Interjection

wisha

1. (Ireland) An expression of surprise.

Anagrams

• Shawi, washi