weet

English

Etymology

Representing a Middle English variant of wit (verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /wiːt/

Verb

weet (third-person singular simple present weets, present participle weeting, simple past and past participle weeted)

1. (archaic) To know.
   • 1885: I wept for myself, but resigned my soul to the tyranny of Time and Circumstance, well weeting that Fortune is fair and constant to no man. — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 13

Anagrams

• twee

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch weten, meaning "to know"; related to the English wit.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /wiət/

Verb

weet (past participle geweet)

1. to know
2. be be aware of

Usage notes

This verb also has a rarely used preterite form, wis.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːt
• IPA: /ʋeːt/, /ʋeit/

Noun

weet m (plural weten, diminutive weetje)

1. knowledge; science.
2. (archaic) notice; advertisement.

Verb

weet

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of weten
2. imperative of weten
3. singular past indicative of wijten

Anagrams

• twee, wete

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Limburgish

Etymology

From Old Dutch *wit, from Proto-Germanic *wet, *wit. A rare example of the old dual pronoun surviving into a modern West Germanic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [weːt ~ weːð]

Pronoun

weet

1. Nominative dual of ich

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz, from *hwītaz (“white”). Compare English wheat, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen.

Noun

weet c

1. wheat