wraith

Mane (Îngilîzî)

A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.

Hevwate

ghost

👻

spectre

specter

apparition

spook

phantasm

spirit

shade

gnome

hobgoblin

manes

party dress

phantom

pixy

revelation

revelations

revenant

soul

spectrum

sprite

vision

zombie

🧟

zombi

bogey

bogy

discovery

doppelganger

eye-opener

fetch

genie

🧞

Werger

fantôme

👻

fantasma

👻

fantasma

👻

espectro

aparición

φάντασμα

spectre

👻

tayf

Gespenst

👻

spettro

schim

fantasma

👻

apparition

divulgation

φάντασμα νεκρού

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/ɹeɪθ/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Hevwate bi skotî: warth

Hevwate bi Old Norse: vǫrðr

Hevwate bi îzlendî: vörður

In summary

Borrowed from Middle Scots wraith, first attested in 1513 as a translation of the Aeneid.
The word has no certain etymology; it may be a transferred use of Middle Scots wraith, wrath (nominally "anger, rage", adjectivally "angry, wrathful"), thus connecting it to writhe and making it doublet of wrath and wroth.