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Wiss

name, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
Verb
  1. 1
    To know; to understand. archaic

    "Now with their might they downe me pull, and bring me where they woll, the Blood of myne heart I wiss now causeth both Joy and blisse."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Perhaps an alteration of wis, taken from the incorrect division of iwis (“surely, certainly”) as "I wis", and mistaken for a verb; see wis. Perhaps from (certainly akin to) Old English witan (“to know”); see wit.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Wiss.

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