wisse

Meanings

verbwisse (third-person singular simple present wisses, present participle wissing, simple past and past participle wissed)

present singular third person wisses · participle present wissing · participle past wissed · past wissed

archaicTo show, teach, inform, guide, direct.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European*weyd-“see, know”
Old Englishwisian“to direct, instruct, guide, direct, rule; show, point out; declare, make known”
Middle Englishwissen“to instruct, enlighten, advise, admonish; guide, direct, control, manage, rule”
Englishwisse

From Middle English wissen (“to instruct, enlighten, advise, admonish; guide, direct, control, manage, rule”), from Old English wisian (“to direct, instruct, guide, direct, rule; show, point out; declare, make known”). Related to wise and more remotely to wit. See Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”).

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