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.

• wisse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• 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