"I wiss" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From an incorrect assumption made by editors where i-wiss, iwis (“certainly, for sure”) was hypercorrected to I wiss, as if wiss were a verb and I were the pronoun I. See also wiss, wis, iwis.",
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      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "I wiss (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904, Child, Sargent, Kittredge, English and Scottish popular ballads:",
          "text": "To tell the truth, I'm well informed / Yon match is a wile; The sheriff, I wiss, devises this / Us archers to beguile.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1631, James Ussher, Charles Richard Elrington, The whole works: Volume 4:",
          "text": "Such wholesome directions doth the bishop of Rome give unto those that will be ruled by him : far different (I wiss) from that holy doctrine, wherewith the Church of Rome was at first seasoned by the apostles [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "I take him for some fiend, I wiss. — Grim, the Collier of Croydon, author unknown."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "surely, certainly; indeed, assuredly"
      ],
      "id": "en-I_wiss-en-adv-5DRGm6Om",
      "links": [
        [
          "surely",
          "surely"
        ],
        [
          "certainly",
          "certainly"
        ],
        [
          "indeed",
          "indeed"
        ],
        [
          "assuredly",
          "assuredly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic or poetic) surely, certainly; indeed, assuredly"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "I wuss"
        },
        {
          "word": "I wis"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "not-comparable",
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "I wiss"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From an incorrect assumption made by editors where i-wiss, iwis (“certainly, for sure”) was hypercorrected to I wiss, as if wiss were a verb and I were the pronoun I. See also wiss, wis, iwis.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "I wiss (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English poetic terms",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adverbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904, Child, Sargent, Kittredge, English and Scottish popular ballads:",
          "text": "To tell the truth, I'm well informed / Yon match is a wile; The sheriff, I wiss, devises this / Us archers to beguile.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1631, James Ussher, Charles Richard Elrington, The whole works: Volume 4:",
          "text": "Such wholesome directions doth the bishop of Rome give unto those that will be ruled by him : far different (I wiss) from that holy doctrine, wherewith the Church of Rome was at first seasoned by the apostles [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "I take him for some fiend, I wiss. — Grim, the Collier of Croydon, author unknown."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "surely, certainly; indeed, assuredly"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surely",
          "surely"
        ],
        [
          "certainly",
          "certainly"
        ],
        [
          "indeed",
          "indeed"
        ],
        [
          "assuredly",
          "assuredly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic or poetic) surely, certainly; indeed, assuredly"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "not-comparable",
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "I wuss"
    },
    {
      "word": "I wis"
    }
  ],
  "word": "I wiss"
}