Lexicon:Modern/Waeth

Waeth
Stage	Modern CLT
Pronunciation	/ˈwaɪθ/
Part of speech	Noun
Etymology	from Middle Wetē, from Proto wet
Related words	Oerwy, Hyddwy, Palmgild, Roedskrin

Waeth — information, considered as a thing that can be bought and sold.

Notes

Patrol schedules, cargo declarations, sailing dates, who owes what to whom. In the Iron Coves it is a commodity with a market and a price. Everywhere else it is simply what people know, and the word carries a faint suggestion that somebody has paid for it.