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/
• 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.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868:

     Or we depart I shal thee so wel wisse / That of min hous ne shalt thou never misse

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   • 1475, [unknown translator], Sidrak and Bokkus, translation of Livre de la fontaine de toutes sciences

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

• 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. Inflected form of wis

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wisse

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of wissen

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wisse

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvisə/

wisse

1. to know, to be aware of (a fact)

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

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)‎, Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folio 1, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, January 2018:

     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