Waite (name)

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title: Waite (name)
text: Waite is an English surname. Its variant forms include Wait, Wayte, Waits and Waight. It is derived from the old high German wahten; it is common in the sense of guard or watchman to all the Teutonic languages, the German wacht, Dutch vaght, Swedish vakt and English watch. When used as a verb, its meaning is "to stay in expectation of"; as a noun, it denotes a minstrel watchmen. Waite is an occupational name for a watchman either in a town or castle from Anglo-Norman French waite ‘watchman membe
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date created: 2010-03-05T13:35:22Z
date modified: 2024-09-01T13:58:49Z
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