# wid
## English
### Etymology

Variant of with.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: wĭd, IPA: /wɪd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪd

### Preposition

wid
* (regional) Pronunciation spelling of with.
** 1893, Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
    “An’ wid all d’ bringin’ up she had, how could she?” moaningly she asked of her son. “Wid all d’ talkin’ wid her I did an’ d’ t’ings I tol’ her to remember. When a girl is bringed up d’ way I bringed up Maggie, how kin she go teh d’ devil?”
** 1922, Eugene O'Neill, The Hairy Ape,
    Oh, there was fine beautiful ships them days—clippers wid tall masts touching the sky—fine strong men in them—men that was sons of the sea as if ’twas the mother that bore them.
** 1940, Shirley Graham, “It’s Morning,” in Black Female Playwrights, Kathy A Perkins ed.
    Cissie. But, when da saints ob God go marchin’ home
    Mah gal will sing! Wid all da pure, bright stars,
    Tuhgedder wid da mawnin’ stars—She’ll sing!
** 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:What's wid you, wise guy?

#### Related terms

* See with

### Anagrams

* D.W.I., DWI, IWD, WDI, dwi-

## Belizean Creole
### Alternative forms

* wit

### Preposition

wid
* with

### References

* Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 372.

## Jamaican Creole
### Etymology

Derived from English with.

### Preposition

wid
* with
** 2023, Yuunivorshal Deklarieshan a Yuuman Raits, United Nations, Aatikl 17:Evribadi av di rait fi uon prapati bai demself ar wid ada piipl.Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.(literally, “Everybody have the right to own property by themselves or with other people.”)

### Further reading

* wid at majstro.com

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wīdaz. Cognate with Old Frisian wīd, Old Saxon wīdo and Old Dutch wīdo, Old High German wīt, Old Norse víðr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wiːd/

### Adjective

wīd
* wide, far
    wīdcūþ ― widely known, famous
    wīdfæþme ― ample, far-reaching, extensive
    wīdmǣrsian ― to publish, widely proclaim

#### Derived terms

* wīdsīþ

#### Descendants

* Middle English: wid, wyd
** English: wide
** Scots: wid, wyd

## Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vȋdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wéiˀdas, from Proto-Indo-European *wéyd-o-s, from *weyd- (“to see”). Cognate to Czech vid, Russian вид (vid) and Lithuanian véidas.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvit/
* (Masovia):
** (Far Masovian) IPA: /ˈvit/
* Rhymes: -it
* Syllabification: wid
* Homophone: Wit

### Noun

wid m animal
* (obsolete) apparition, phantom, spectre
    Synonyms: widmo, widziadło, zjawa, zwid

#### Declension
### Noun

wid m inan
* (obsolete) appearance (the way something looks; personal presence)
    Synonyms: aparycja, powierzchowność, wygląd
* (Far Masovian, chiefly in set phrases) sight (information of someone's pressence detected by the eye)
    Coordinate term: słych
    Ani widu, ani slychu. ― (I) haven't seen or heard (it).

#### Derived terms

* w pijackim widzie
* ani widu ani słychu

#### Related terms

* widoczny
* widomy
* widzialny
* widownia
* widz
* widać
* widywać
* widzieć

### Further reading

* wid in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Antoni Waga (1860) “wid”, in “Abecadłowy spis wyrazów ludowego języka w okolicach Łomży, Wizny i przyległych”, in Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki, editor, Biblioteka Warszawska (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 759