wisse

From Middle English wissen (“to instruct, enlighten, advise, admonish; guide, direct, control, manage, rule”), from Old English wissian (“to direct, instruct, guide, direct, rule; show, point out; declare, make known”).

• IPA^(key): /wɪs/

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

1. (archaic) To show, teach, inform, guide, direct.
   • Chaucer

     Ere we depart I shall thee so well wisse / That of mine house ne shalt thou never misse.

   • 1500, Sidrak and Bokkus

     Shullen men chastice wymmen and wisse / Wiþ betyng whan þei done amisse?

• Weiss, swies, wises

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɪsə/
• Hyphenation: wis‧se

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From Middle Dutch wisse, from Old Dutch *withtha, from Proto-Germanic *wiþjǭ. The development *-þj- > -ss- is also found in smidse (from earlier smisse); original *-þþ- becomes -tt- in lat, mot.

wisse f (plural wissen)

1. cubic metre (mainly when used for firewood)

wisse

1. Inflected form of wis

wisse

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of wissen

wisse

1. First-person singular subjunctive I of wissen.
2. Third-person singular subjunctive I of wissen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvisə/

wisse

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• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

From Old English wissung (“showing, instruction, guidance, direction; rule, regulation, government”).

wisse

1. A guide, set of instructions, rule, regulation.

   Her biginneð ancrene wisse. & Ancrene Wisse, c1230

• wissen

• Middle English Dictionary

wisse

1. Alternative form of wiste