• Listen

  What it means

  Literally “neither sight nor sound.” Means someone or something has completely vanished — no trace, no news, nothing. Used when a person disappears without a word.

  Vocabulary

  • wid — sight / vision (archaic)
  • słych — sound / news (archaic)
  • ani… ani… — neither… nor…

  Grammar note

  'Widu' and 'słychu' are genitive forms of the archaic nouns 'wid' and 'słych', required after 'ani' in this negated construction.

  Cultural context

  Both 'wid' and 'słych' are archaic words that survive only in this fixed phrase — a sign of how old the expression is. Still widely used and immediately understood.

  Intermediate

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