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”).

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
    • Ere we depart I shall thee so well wisse That of mine house ne shalt thou never misse. — Chaucer
    • Shullen men chastice wymmen and wisse / Wiþ betyng whan þei done amisse? — Sidrak and Bokkus, 1500

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: wis‧se

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wisse, from Old Dutch *withtha, from Proto-Germanic *wiþjǭ. The development -thth- > -ss- is regular, compare smidse.

Noun

wisse f (plural wissen)

  1. cubic metre (mainly when used for firewood)

Etymology 2

Adjective

wisse

  1. Inflected form of wis

Etymology 3

Verb

wisse

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of wissen

German

Verb

wisse

  1. First-person singular subjunctive I of wissen.
  2. Third-person singular subjunctive I of wissen.

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

References

  • Middle English Dictionary

Old English

Verb

wisse

  1. Alternative form of wiste
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