weet

Etymology

From Middle English weten, a Middle English variant of witen (“to know”). More at wit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wiːt/

Verb

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

1. (archaic) To know.
   • Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, Scene I, 37-41:

     The nobleness of life / Is to do thus, when such a mutual pair / And such a twain can do ’t, in which I bind, / On pain of punishment, the world to weet / We stand up peerless.

   • 1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 13:

     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.

Anagrams

• ewte, twee

Etymology

From Dutch weten (“to know”), from Middle Dutch weten, from Old Dutch witan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Related to the English wit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪət/

Verb

weet (present weet, present participle wetende, past wis, past participle geweet)

1. to know
2. to be aware of

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eːt
• IPA^(key): /ʋeːt/

Noun

weet m (plural weten, diminutive weetje n)

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

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^(key): [weːt], [weːð]

Pronoun

weet

1. nominative dual of ich

Verb

weet

1. inflection of weeden:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular and plural imperative

Verb

wêet

1. first-person and third-person singular present indicative of wēten

Etymology

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

Noun

weet c

1. wheat