wisse

English

Etymology

From Middle English wissen (“to instruct, enlighten, advise, admonish; guide, direct, control, manage, rule”), from Old English wissian (“to direct, instruct, guide, direct, rule; show, point out; declare, make known”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɪs/

Verb

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

1. (archaic) To show, teach, inform, guide, direct.
   • Chaucer

     Ere we depart I shall thee so well wisse / That of mine house ne shalt thou never misse.

   • 1500, Sidrak and Bokkus

     Shullen men chastice wymmen and wisse / Wiþ betyng whan þei done amisse?

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “wisse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Weiss, swies, wises

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɪsə/

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• Hyphenation: wis‧se
• Rhymes: -ɪsə

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wisse, from Old Dutch *withtha, from Proto-Germanic *wiþjǭ. The development *-þj- > -ss- is also found in smidse (from earlier smisse); original *-þþ- becomes -tt- in lat, mot.

Noun

wisse f (plural wissen)

1. cubic metre (mainly when used for firewood)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

wisse

1. (deprecated template usage) Inflected form of wis

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

wisse

1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of wissen

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German

Verb

wisse

1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of wissen.
2. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of wissen.

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Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvisə/

Verb

wisse

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

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Middle English

Etymology

From Old English wissung (“showing, instruction, guidance, direction; rule, regulation, government”).

Noun

wisse

1. A guide, set of instructions, rule, regulation.

   Her biginneð ancrene wisse. & Ancrene Wisse, c1230

Related terms

• wissen

References

• Middle English Dictionary

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Old English

Verb

wisse

1. Alternative form of wiste