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/
- Rhymes: -ɪs
Verb
wisse (third-person singular simple present wisses, present participle wissing, simple past and past participle wissed)
- (archaic) To show, teach, inform, guide, direct.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868:
- Or we depart I shal thee so wel wisse / That of min hous ne shalt thou never misse
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- 1475, [unknown translator], Sidrak and Bokkus, translation of Livre de la fontaine de toutes sciences
- Shullen men chastice wymmen and wisse / Wiþ betyng whan þei done amisse?
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
- Weiss, swies, wises
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʋɪsə/
Audio (file) - 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)
- cubic metre (mainly when used for firewood)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
wisse
- Inflected form of wis
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
wisse
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of wissen
German
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
wisse
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I of wissen
- singular imperative of wissen
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvisə/
Verb
wisse
- to know, to be aware of (a fact)
Further reading
- Online Hunsrik Dictionary
Middle English
Etymology
From wissen (“to guide”) + -e (agentive suffix).
Noun
wisse
- (Early Middle English, hapax) A guide; a collection of directives or regulations.
- c. 1225, “Introduction”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402), Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folio 1, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, January 2018:
- her biginneð ancrene ƿiſſe
- This is the beginning of the Anchoresses' Guide.
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References
- “wisse, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old English
Verb
wisse
- Alternative form of wiste