rihtwis

From Proto-West Germanic *rehtawīs. Cognate with Old High German rehtwīs. Equivalent to riht +‎ -wīs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrixtˌwiːs/, [ˈriçtˌwiːs]

rihtwīs (comparative rihtwīsre, superlative rihtwīsost)

1. just, fair
2. righteous
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

     Hē wæs swīþe snotor wer, and sōþfæst on sprǣċe, rihtwīs on dōme, and on rǣde foreglēaw...

     He was a very wise man, and truthful in speech, righteous in judgement, and very prudent in counsel...

• rihtwīsnes
• unrihtwīs

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “riht-wís”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.