weet
See also: Weet
English
Etymology
From Middle English weten, a Middle English variant of witen (“to know”). More at wit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wiːt/
- Rhymes: -iːt
Verb
weet (third-person singular simple present weets, present participle weeting, simple past and past participle weeted)
- (intransitive, archaic) To know.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 25, page 87:
- But Glauce, ſeeing all that chaunced there, / VVell vveeting hovv their errour to aſſoyle, / Full glad of ſo good end, to them drevv nere, / And her ſalevved vvith ſeemly belaccoyle, / Ioyous to ſee her ſafe after long toyle.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], lines 37–41:
- The nobleness of life / Is to do thus, when such a mutual pair / And such a twain can do ’t, in which I bind, / On pain of punishment, the world to weet / We stand up peerless.
- 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 13”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
- I wept for myself, but resigned my soul to the tyranny of Time and Circumstance, well weeting that Fortune is fair and constant to no man.
Afrikaans
Alternative forms
- wiet (Cape Afrikaans)
Etymology
From Dutch weten (“to know”), from Middle Dutch weten, from Old Dutch witan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Related to English wit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɪət/
Audio (file)
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʋeːt/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: weet
- Rhymes: -eːt
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch wete. See the verb weten (“to know”).
Noun
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
weet
Limburgish
Etymology
From Old Dutch *wit, from Proto-Germanic *wet, *wit. A rare example of the old dual pronoun surviving into a modern West Germanic language.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [weːt], [weːð]
Luxembourgish
Verb
weet
- inflection of weeden:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person singular/plural imperative
Middle Dutch
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian hwēte, wēt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī.
Further reading
- “weet (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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