hwitian

== Old English == === Alternative forms === hwītan === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *hwītnōną. Equivalent to hwīt +‎ -ian. === Verb === hwītian to whiten ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== sweartian (“to blacken”) === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “hwītian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.