weet

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See also: Weet

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English weten, a Middle English variant of witen (to know). More at wit.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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weet (third-person singular simple present weets, present participle weeting, simple past and past participle weeted)

  1. (intransitive, archaic) To know.

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Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Alternative forms

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  • wiet (Cape Afrikaans)

Etymology

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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 English wit.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vɪət/
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

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weet (present weet, present participle wetende, past wis, past participle geweet)

  1. to know
  2. to be aware of

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch wete. See the verb weten (to know).

Noun

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weet f (plural weten, diminutive weetje n)

  1. awareness, knowledge
  2. knowledge; science
  3. (archaic) notice; advertisement

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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weet

  1. inflection of weten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative
  2. singular past indicative of wijten

Anagrams

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Limburgish

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Etymology

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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

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Pronoun

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weet

  1. nominative dual of ich

Luxembourgish

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Verb

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weet

  1. inflection of weeden:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person plural present indicative
    3. second-person singular/plural imperative

Middle Dutch

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Verb

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wêet

  1. first/third-person singular present indicative of wēten

North Frisian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian wita, from Proto-West Germanic *witan.

Verb

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weet

  1. (Sylt) to know

Conjugation

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West Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian hwēte, wēt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī.

Noun

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weet c (plural weten)

  1. wheat

Further reading

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  • weet (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011