Etymology

wost

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Middle English wost ← Old English wāst ← Proto-Germanic *waist
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  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*witaną“to wit, know”
  2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*waist
  3. Old English · inherited fromwāst
  4. Middle English · inherited fromwost
  5. English todaywost

From Middle English wost, from Old English wāst (also wǣst), from Proto-Germanic *waist, second person singular indicative of Proto-Germanic *witaną (“to wit, know”). More at English wit.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*witaną all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.