weet

• IPA^(key): /wiːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt

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

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

1. (intransitive, archaic) To know.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 25, page 87:

     But Glauce, ſeeing all that chaunced there, / VVell vveeting hovv their errour to aſſoyle, / Full glad of ſo good end, to them drevv nere, / And her ſalevved vvith ſeemly belaccoyle, / Ioyous to ſee her ſafe after long toyle.

   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], lines 37–41:

     The nobleness of life / Is to do thus, when such a mutual pair / And such a twain can do ’t, in which I bind, / On pain of punishment, the world to weet / We stand up peerless.

   • 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 13”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

     I wept for myself, but resigned my soul to the tyranny of Time and Circumstance, well weeting that Fortune is fair and constant to no man.

weet

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Alternative form of wet, especially in the sense "rainy weather".
   • 1885, James Lumsden, Rural Rhymes and Sketches in East Lothian, page 80:

     ... binds with wind and weet / The vestment round his thews.

   • 1913, Elizabeth Mary Wright, Rustic Speech and Folk-lore, page 314:

     When dingy packs on Criffel lower, Then hoose yer kye an' stuik yer duir, But if Criffel be fair an' clear, For win' or weet ye needn't fear (Cum.).

• ewte, twee

• wiet (Cape Afrikaans)

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.

• IPA^(key): /vɪət/

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

1. to know
2. to be aware of

• IPA^(key): /ʋeːt/

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• Hyphenation: weet
• Rhymes: -eːt

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

weet f (plural weten, diminutive weetje n)

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

weet

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

• twee, wete

From Old Dutch *wit, from Proto-Germanic *wet, *wit. A rare example of the old dual pronoun surviving into a modern West Germanic language.

• IPA^(key): [weːt], [weːð]

weet

1. nominative dual of ich

weet

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

wêet

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

• wed (Föhr-Amrum)
• waase (Mooring)

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

weet

1. (Sylt) to know

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

weet c (plural weten)

1. wheat

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