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wiss.

To know; to understand.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb
  1. To know; to understand.

    archaic
Where this word comes from

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.

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