# weet
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wiːt/
* Rhymes: -iːt

### Verb

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

### See also

* weet weet
* weet-weet

### Anagrams

* ewte, twee

## Afrikaans
### Alternative forms

* wiet (Cape Afrikaans)

### Etymology

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

* IPA: /vɪət/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

weet (present weet, present participle wetende, past wis, past participle geweet)
* to know
* to be aware of

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʋeːt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: weet
* Rhymes: -eːt

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

weet f (plural weten, diminutive weetje n)
* awareness, knowledge
* knowledge; science
* (archaic) notice; advertisement

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

weet
* inflection of weten:
** first/second/third-person singular present indicative
** imperative
* singular past indicative of wijten

### Anagrams

* twee, wete

## Limburgish
### Etymology

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

* IPA: [weːt], [weːð]

### Pronoun

weet
* nominative dual of ich

## Luxembourgish
### Verb

weet
* inflection of weeden:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person singular/plural imperative

## Middle Dutch
### Verb

wêet
* first/third-person singular present indicative of wēten

## North Frisian
### Alternative forms

* wed (Föhr-Amrum)
* waase (Mooring)

### Etymology

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

### Verb

weet
* (Sylt) to know

#### Conjugation
## West Frisian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

weet c (plural weten)
* wheat

#### Further reading

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