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/
Verb
weet (third-person singular simple present weets, present participle weeting, simple past and past participle weeted)
- (archaic) To know.
- Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, Scene I, 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, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 13:
- 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.
- Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, Scene I, 37-41:
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 the English wit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɪət/
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -eːt
- IPA(key): /ʋeːt/
Noun
weet m (plural weten, diminutive weetje n)
- knowledge; science.
- (archaic) notice; advertisement.
Verb
weet
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of weten
- imperative of weten
- singular past indicative of wijten
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 and plural imperative
Middle Dutch
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian hwēte, wēt, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz.
Further reading
- “weet (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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