wisp

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.
2. (countable, uncountable) A whisk, or small broom.
3. (countable, uncountable) A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
4. (countable, uncountable) An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.
5. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A flock of snipe.
6. (uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle.

Verb

1. (transitive) To brush or dress, as with a wisp.
2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) To rumple.
3. (intransitive) To produce a wisp, as of smoke.
4. (transitive) To emit in wisps.

Konzepte

Strohbündel

Wisch

Haarbüschel

Bündel

Irrlicht

Strähne

Bund

Wölkchen

Büschel

Fetzen

Haarsträhne

Synonyme

tuft

bunch

bundle

scrap

tussock

shred

sheaf

faggot

fagot

fascicle

fine

flash

forelock

handful

light

little

lock

🔒

lowercase

minor

pack

packet

panache

patch

piece

pompon

puff

small

small-scale

smithereens

splash

spray

sprig

strand

swad

tassel

tiny

toothpick

twist

whisk

wreath

little piece

a lock of hair

small bundle

ball

bright wisp

beam

bind

brush

crest

dossier

Übersetzungen

άχυρο

touffe

tutam

mechón

🔒

brizna

bağlam

deste

brin

sliert

manciata

σανός

jirón

voluta

fétu

tufo

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/wɪsp/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: wispe

Geerbt von Altenglisch: *wisp

Verwandt mit Westfriesisch: wisp

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: wisp

Verwandt mit Mittelniederländisch: -

Verwandt mit Middle Low German: wispel

In summary

From Middle English wispe, wyspe, wips, wipse, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *wisp, *wips. Cognate with West Frisian wisp, Dutch wisp (“bundle of hay or straw”), Norwegian bokmål/Swedish/Bornholm Danish visp (“handful or bundle of grass, hay, etc.”). Akin also to Middle Dutch/Middle Low German wispel (“measure of grain”).