wiss

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English

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Etymology

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Perhaps an alteration of wis, taken from the incorrect division of iwis (surely, certainly) as "I wis", and mistaken for a verb; see wis. Perhaps from (certainly akin to) Old English witan (to know); see wit.

Verb

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wiss (third-person singular simple present wisses, present participle wissing, simple past and past participle wissed)

  1. (archaic) To know; to understand.
    • 1652, Elias Ashmole, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum:
      Now with their might they downe me pull, and bring me where they woll, the Blood of myne heart I wiss now causeth both Joy and blisse.
    • 1874, A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Dodsley et al.:
      And though that the water be gross and heavy, yet nothing so gross as the earth, I wiss; therefore by heat it is vapoured up lightly, and in the air maketh clouds and mists.

Alemannic German

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Etymology

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From Old High German wīz, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz. Cognate with German weiß, Dutch wit, English white, Icelandic hvítur.

Adjective

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wiss

  1. (Gressoney, Carcoforo, Rimella and Campello Monti, Formazza) white

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