Ed-wist
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ed-wist
According to the Old English Dictionary:
, e;
- ed-wist
- f. [ed re-, anew, again; wist support] Being, subsistence, existence, essence, substance; substantia :-- Ic adilegie ealle ða edwiste, ðe ic geworhte dēlēbo omnem substantiam, quam fēci, Gen. 7, 4.