Etymology

wizened

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Today it means: Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness. Full definition →

Middle English wisenen ← Old English wisnian ← Proto-Germanic *wisnōjaną
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  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*wisnōjaną
  2. Old English · inherited fromwisnian
  3. Middle English · inherited fromwisenen
  4. English todaywizened

From wizen + -ed. Inherited from Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian, weosnian, from Proto-Germanic *wisnōjaną. Cognate with Icelandic visna.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishwisenen all →

wizen

Old Englishwisnian all →

wizen

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.