Name

Name WITCH

Between 2010 and 2021 there were 1 birth of Witch in the countries below, which represents an average of 0 birth of children bearing the first name Witch per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 0 birth.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom Witch
In Italiano

Nome Witch

Information about the first name Witch

The first name Witch has been assigned to:

0.00% to boys
100.00% to girls

The country where the first name Witch is the most common is:

Chili

This first name is on trend: Female

This first name has 5 letters including 1 vowel and 4 consonants

Witch in Japanese ^*

Romaji	wiccho
Katakana	ウィッチョ
Hiragana	うぃっちょ
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Witch in binary language

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Origin and meaning of name Witch

English

Etymology

From Middle English wicchen, from Old English wiċċian, from Proto-Germanic *wikkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *wik-néh₂-, derivation of *weyk-. In the senses arising in Middle English and later probably aphetic from bewitch.

Etymology

Compare wick.

Etymology (Verb)

witch (third-person singular simple present witches, present participle witching, simple past and past participle witched)
(intransitive) To dowse for water.

Etymology (Verb)

witch (third-person singular simple present witches, present participle witching, simple past and past participle witched)
(obsolete, intransitive) To practise witchcraft.
(transitive) To bewitch.

Etymology (Noun)

witch (plural witches)
A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.

Pronunciation

enPR: wĭch, IPA(key): /wɪt͡ʃ/
Rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Homophone: which (in accents with the wine-whine merger), wich, wych

Scots

Alternative forms

wutch, whitch

Noun

witch (plural witchs)
witch; A person, chiefly a woman, skilled in sorcery.
warlock
(transferred) Various animals, insects and objects in some way associated with witches.
A moth in general; a tortoiseshell butterfly.
The pole flounder or dab, Glyptocephalus cynoglossus.
The seaweed, Laminaria saccharina.
A red clay marble, generally one that is considered effective in winning games, a “wizard”.

Verb

witch (third-person singular simple present, present participle witching, simple past witchit, past participle witchit)
(transitive) To harm (a person, etc.) by means of witchcraft; to bewitch, cast a spell on.
(figuratively) To affect or influence as by witchcraft.