wiis

See also: -wiis and Wiis

North Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wesaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-, cognate with Old English wesan, West Frisian wêze.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /viːs/

Verb

wiis (present sen, 2nd singular best, 3rd singular es, past wiar, perfect wesen)

  1. (Sylt) to be

Sudovian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow (of wind)”). Compare Lithuanian vė́jas (“wind”), Latvian vẽjš (“wind”).[1][2]

Noun

wiiſ

  1. (weather) storm
    • “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 132, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
      burza — wiiſ
      burza — storm

See also

References
  1. Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 81: “wiiſ ‘audra, vėtra, l. burza’ 132.”
  2. “vė́ti” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. sm. wiiſ Sturm, Gewitter”.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wīsaz.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /viːs/

Adjective

wiis

  1. wise

Inflection
Inflection of wiis
uninflected wiis
inflected wize
comparative wizer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial wiiswizerit wiist
it wiiste
indefinite c. sing. wizewizerewiiste
n. sing. wiiswizerwiiste
plural wizewizerewiiste
definite wizewizerewiiste
partitive wiiswizers—

Further reading
  • “wiis”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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