English Explanatory Dictionary

wiss

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To know; to understand.
name
  1. A surname from German.

Word forms

wiss wisses wissing wissed wis

Etymology

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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