WICHT, _adj._ strong, vigorous, skillful. Bruce, VII, 263; Ramsay, I 253. O.N. _vígr_, fit for battle, skilled in war, from _víg_, battle, Sw. _vig_, active, M.E. _wiht_, valiant. B-S. queries the word, but thinks it may come from M.L.G. _wicht_, heavy, thus the same word as Eng. _weight_. This meaning is, however, not satisfactory. The Sco. usage is that of the Scand. word. The _t_ is inflectional. Cp. O.N. _eiga vígt um_. WICK, _vb._ to make to turn, to strike off on the side, strike a stone in an oblique direction, a term in curling, to hit the corner (Wagner). O.N. _víkja_, to turn, to veer, Sw. dial. _vik_, Sw. _wika_, Norse _vikja_, _vika_, to turn (causative). Dan. _vige_ not quite the same word. WILKATT, _sb._ a wild cat, Dalr., I, 723. Ramsay II, 500. O.N. _vill_ + Eng., Norse _cat_, _kat_. WILL, VILL, _adj. adv._ lost, bewildered, astray. Dunbar, 228, 74; Douglas, II, 24, 6, "to go will." O.N. _villr_, bewildered, _fara villt_, get lost, Norse _vill_, astray, Dan. _vild_, Sw. _vill_. Cp. Cu. _wills_, doubts, "Aaz i' wills whether to gang or nit." WILRONE, _sb._ a wild boar. Scott, 71, 106. O.N. _vill_, wild, + _runi_, a boar, a wild boar, Norse _rone_, _raane_, Sw. dial. _råne_, Dan., with metathesis, _orne_. WILSUM, _adj._ errant, wandering. Douglas, II, 65, 16; "a wilsome way," "Freires of Berwick," 410. See _will_, astray. _Wilsum_ more frequently means "willful," is Eng. WISSLE, VISSIL, WYSSIL. Douglas, III, 225, 8; Bruce, XII, 580; Montg., F., 578. O.N. _vixla_, to cross, to put across, _vixlingr_, a changeling (Cl. and V.), Norse _veksla_, _vessla_, to exchange, Dan. _veksle_. Sco. and Norse both show the change of _ks_ to _ss_. The Norse form _versla_ shows later dissimilation of _ss_ to _rs_. This is W.Norse. WITTIR, _sb._ a sign. Douglas, II, 231, 16. See _wittering_. WITTERING, VITTERING, _sb._ information, knowledge. Bruce, IV, 562; Douglas, II, 185, 27. O.N. _vitring_, revelation, from vb. _vitra_, to reveal. Norse _vitring_, information, M.E. _witering_, id. WELTER, _sb._ an overturning. Winyet, I, 49, 22. See the vb. _welter_. PART III. 1. THE DIALECTAL PROVENIENCE OF LOANWORDS. The general character of the Scand. loanwords in Sco. is Norse, not Dan. This is shown by (a) A number of words that either do not exist in Dan. or else have in Sco. a distinctively W. Scand. sense; (b) Words with a W. Scand. form. (a). The following words have in Sco. a W. Scand. meaning or are not found in Danish: