wisse

From Middle English wissen (“to instruct, enlighten, advise, admonish; guide, direct, control, manage, rule”), from Old English wisian (“to direct, instruct, guide, direct, rule; show, point out; declare, make known”). Related to wise and more remotely to wit. See Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”).

• IPA^(key): /wɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɪs

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

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

• “wisse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• to wisse

• Weiss, swies, wises

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɪsə/

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• Hyphenation: wis‧se
• Rhymes: -ɪsə

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)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wisse

1. inflection of wis:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wisse

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of wissen

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wisse

1. first/third-person singular subjunctive I of wissen
2. singular imperative of wissen

Inherited from Central Franconian wesse, from Middle High German wizzen, from Old High German izzan, from Proto-West Germanic *witan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną.^[1]

Cognate with German wissen and German wëssen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvisə/
• Rhymes: -isə
• Hyphenation: wis‧se

wisse

1. (intransitive or transitive, with accusative) to know; to be aware of

• Gewisse

From wissen (“to guide”) +‎ -e (agentive suffix).

wisse

1. (Early Middle English, hapax) A guide; a collection of directives or regulations.
   • c. 1225, “Introduction”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402)‎^[1], Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folio 1, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 2018 January:

     her biginneð ancrene ƿiſſe

     This is the beginning of the Anchoresses' Guide.

• “wisse, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

wisse

1. Alternative form of wiste