"witen" meaning in Middle English

See witen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Etymology: From Old English witan, weotan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Cognate with Dutch weten, German wissen, and Swedish veta. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|witan|witan, weotan}} Old English witan, weotan, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*witaną}} Proto-Germanic *witaną, {{inh|enm|ine-pro|*weyd-||see, know}} Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”), {{cog|nl|weten}} Dutch weten, {{cog|de|wissen}} German wissen, {{cog|sv|veta}} Swedish veta Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|head=}} witen, {{enm-verb|woot|witynge|wiste|witen}} witen (third-person singular simple present woot, present participle witynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative wiste, past participle witen) Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-irr|woot|wist|wit|woost|inf3=0|obl=wot|w_part=1|y=0}} Forms: woot [present, singular, third-person], witynge [participle, present], wiste [first-person, indicative, past, singular, third-person], witen [participle, past], no-table-tags [table-tags], witen [infinitive], to witen [infinitive], wite [infinitive], woot [first-person, present, singular], wiste [first-person, past, singular], woost [present, second-person, singular], wistest [past, second-person, singular], woot [present, singular, third-person], wiste [past, singular, third-person], wite [present, singular, subjunctive], wote [present, singular, subjunctive], wiste [past, singular, subjunctive], wite [imperative, present, singular], wote [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], witen [plural, present], wite [plural, present], woten [plural, present], wote [plural, present], wisten [past, plural], wiste [past, plural], witeth [imperative, plural, present], wite [imperative, plural, present], woteth [imperative, plural, present], wote [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], witynge [participle, present], witende [participle, present], witen [participle, past], wite [participle, past], wist [participle, past]
  1. to know (a fact with certainty):
    Sense id: en-witen-enm-verb-iVC2m8Tp
  2. to be aware (of a situation, fact, etc.):
    to have a full understanding (of something)
    Sense id: en-witen-enm-verb-Ny5BmPak
  3. to be aware (of a situation, fact, etc.):
    to be aware (of someone's location)
    Sense id: en-witen-enm-verb-NjK8rcQI
  4. to be aware (of a situation, fact, etc.):
    Sense id: en-witen-enm-verb-O97N5ueG
  5. to recognise; to comprehend (something):
    to perceive; to notice (something)
    Sense id: en-witen-enm-verb-mRi9kkzJ Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 4 7 7 7 18 18 3 3 3 3 7 7 2 3 7
  6. to recognise; to comprehend (something):
    to discern; to distinguish (something from another)
    Sense id: en-witen-enm-verb-iWQP7z~E Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 4 7 7 7 18 18 3 3 3 3 7 7 2 3 7
  7. to experience, to be familiar with (something):
    to know (to do, to say)
    Sense id: en-witen-enm-verb-XfSuYkaH
  8. to experience, to be familiar with (something):
    to know how (to do)
    Sense id: en-witen-enm-verb-wAJ8qe-1
  9. to experience, to be familiar with (something):
    to know (that something will happen)
    Sense id: en-witen-enm-verb-ktA5I53-
  10. to experience, to be familiar with (something):
    Sense id: en-witen-enm-verb-ENA1go81
  11. to know about (a topic)
    Sense id: en-witen-enm-verb-SUd9Kdxv
  12. to find out; to become aware
    Sense id: en-witen-enm-verb-lKeGIFlm
  13. to ask; to question
    Sense id: en-witen-enm-verb-zdpa21xv
  14. to be confident (something is the case or will happen) Categories (topical): Mind
    Sense id: en-witen-enm-verb-EkQU~ce0 Disambiguation of Mind: 0 0 0 0 5 0 13 13 13 13 0 0 0 42 0
  15. (rare) to make known Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-witen-enm-verb-Qu8vCQnY
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: wete, weten, wetyn, wite, witenn, witten, wyett, wyt, wyte, wyten, woten

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "wit",
            "3": "weet"
          },
          "expansion": "English: wit, weet",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: wit, weet"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sco",
            "2": "wit"
          },
          "expansion": "Scots: wit",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
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    }
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "weten"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch weten",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "wissen"
      },
      "expansion": "German wissen",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
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      },
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    }
  ],
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "woot",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "witynge",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wiste",
      "tags": [
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        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "witen",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enm-conj-irr",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "witen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "to witen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "woot",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wiste",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "woost",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wistest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "woot",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wiste",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wote",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wiste",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wote",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "witen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "woten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wote",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wisten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wiste",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "witeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "woteth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wote",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "witynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "witende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "witen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wist",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "witen",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "woot",
        "2": "witynge",
        "3": "wiste",
        "4": "witen"
      },
      "expansion": "witen (third-person singular simple present woot, present participle witynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative wiste, past participle witen)",
      "name": "enm-verb"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "woot",
        "2": "wist",
        "3": "wit",
        "4": "woost",
        "inf3": "0",
        "obl": "wot",
        "w_part": "1",
        "y": "0"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-irr"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "God only knows",
          "text": "god wot",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to know (a fact with certainty)"
      ],
      "id": "en-witen-enm-verb-iVC2m8Tp",
      "links": [
        [
          "know",
          "know"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "to know (a fact with certainty):"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to be aware (of a situation, fact, etc.):",
        "to have a full understanding (of something)"
      ],
      "id": "en-witen-enm-verb-Ny5BmPak",
      "links": [
        [
          "aware",
          "aware"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to be aware (of a situation, fact, etc.):",
        "to be aware (of someone's location)"
      ],
      "id": "en-witen-enm-verb-NjK8rcQI",
      "links": [
        [
          "aware",
          "aware"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "If the world hates you, be aware that it had me hating it before you did.",
          "ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Joon 15:18, page 51v; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
          "text": "if þe woꝛld hatiþ ȝou .· wite me þat it hadde me in hate raþer þan ȝou /",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be aware (of a situation, fact, etc.)"
      ],
      "id": "en-witen-enm-verb-O97N5ueG",
      "links": [
        [
          "aware",
          "aware"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "to be aware (of a situation, fact, etc.):"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "4 7 7 7 18 18 3 3 3 3 7 7 2 3 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to recognise; to comprehend (something):",
        "to perceive; to notice (something)"
      ],
      "id": "en-witen-enm-verb-mRi9kkzJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "recognise",
          "recognise"
        ],
        [
          "comprehend",
          "comprehend"
        ],
        [
          "perceive",
          "perceive"
        ],
        [
          "notice",
          "notice"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "4 7 7 7 18 18 3 3 3 3 7 7 2 3 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to recognise; to comprehend (something):",
        "to discern; to distinguish (something from another)"
      ],
      "id": "en-witen-enm-verb-iWQP7z~E",
      "links": [
        [
          "recognise",
          "recognise"
        ],
        [
          "comprehend",
          "comprehend"
        ],
        [
          "discern",
          "discern"
        ],
        [
          "distinguish",
          "distinguish"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to experience, to be familiar with (something):",
        "to know (to do, to say)"
      ],
      "id": "en-witen-enm-verb-XfSuYkaH",
      "links": [
        [
          "experience",
          "experience"
        ],
        [
          "familiar",
          "familiar"
        ],
        [
          "know",
          "know"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to experience, to be familiar with (something):",
        "to know how (to do)"
      ],
      "id": "en-witen-enm-verb-wAJ8qe-1",
      "links": [
        [
          "experience",
          "experience"
        ],
        [
          "familiar",
          "familiar"
        ],
        [
          "know",
          "know"
        ],
        [
          "how",
          "how"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to experience, to be familiar with (something):",
        "to know (that something will happen)"
      ],
      "id": "en-witen-enm-verb-ktA5I53-",
      "links": [
        [
          "experience",
          "experience"
        ],
        [
          "familiar",
          "familiar"
        ],
        [
          "know",
          "know"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "as far as I know",
          "text": "for ought ich wot",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to experience, to be familiar with (something)"
      ],
      "id": "en-witen-enm-verb-ENA1go81",
      "links": [
        [
          "experience",
          "experience"
        ],
        [
          "familiar",
          "familiar"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "to experience, to be familiar with (something):"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to know about (a topic)"
      ],
      "id": "en-witen-enm-verb-SUd9Kdxv",
      "links": [
        [
          "about",
          "about"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to find out; to become aware"
      ],
      "id": "en-witen-enm-verb-lKeGIFlm",
      "links": [
        [
          "find out",
          "find out"
        ],
        [
          "become",
          "become"
        ],
        [
          "aware",
          "aware"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to ask; to question"
      ],
      "id": "en-witen-enm-verb-zdpa21xv",
      "links": [
        [
          "ask",
          "ask"
        ],
        [
          "question",
          "question"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "0 0 0 0 5 0 13 13 13 13 0 0 0 42 0",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Mind",
          "orig": "enm:Mind",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be confident (something is the case or will happen)"
      ],
      "id": "en-witen-enm-verb-EkQU~ce0",
      "links": [
        [
          "confident",
          "confident"
        ],
        [
          "case",
          "case#English"
        ],
        [
          "happen",
          "happen#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "to make known"
      ],
      "id": "en-witen-enm-verb-Qu8vCQnY",
      "links": [
        [
          "make known",
          "make known"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) to make known"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "wete"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "weten"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "wetyn"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "wite"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "witenn"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "witten"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "wyett"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "wyt"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "wyte"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "wyten"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "woten"
    }
  ],
  "word": "witen"
}
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  "categories": [
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English preterite-present verbs",
    "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Middle English verbs",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "enm:Mind"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "wit",
            "3": "weet"
          },
          "expansion": "English: wit, weet",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: wit, weet"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sco",
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    }
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        "singular"
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      "form": "wiste",
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        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
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        "second-person",
        "singular"
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      "form": "wistest",
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        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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        "singular",
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    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
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    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "singular",
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    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "present",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "wote",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "present",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "past",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "woten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wote",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wisten",
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      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wiste",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "witeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "woteth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wote",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "witynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "witende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "witen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wist",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "head"
    },
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        "4": "witen"
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        "w_part": "1",
        "y": "0"
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    }
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  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "english": "God only knows",
          "text": "god wot",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "to know (a fact with certainty)"
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          "aware",
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        "to be aware (of someone's location)"
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      "categories": [
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        {
          "english": "If the world hates you, be aware that it had me hating it before you did.",
          "ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Joon 15:18, page 51v; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
          "text": "if þe woꝛld hatiþ ȝou .· wite me þat it hadde me in hate raþer þan ȝou /",
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        }
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        "to be aware (of a situation, fact, etc.)"
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          "aware",
          "aware"
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        "to be aware (of a situation, fact, etc.):"
      ]
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "to recognise; to comprehend (something):",
        "to perceive; to notice (something)"
      ],
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        [
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          "recognise"
        ],
        [
          "comprehend",
          "comprehend"
        ],
        [
          "perceive",
          "perceive"
        ],
        [
          "notice",
          "notice"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to recognise; to comprehend (something):",
        "to discern; to distinguish (something from another)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "recognise",
          "recognise"
        ],
        [
          "comprehend",
          "comprehend"
        ],
        [
          "discern",
          "discern"
        ],
        [
          "distinguish",
          "distinguish"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to experience, to be familiar with (something):",
        "to know (to do, to say)"
      ],
      "links": [
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          "experience",
          "experience"
        ],
        [
          "familiar",
          "familiar"
        ],
        [
          "know",
          "know"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to experience, to be familiar with (something):",
        "to know how (to do)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "experience",
          "experience"
        ],
        [
          "familiar",
          "familiar"
        ],
        [
          "know",
          "know"
        ],
        [
          "how",
          "how"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to experience, to be familiar with (something):",
        "to know (that something will happen)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "experience",
          "experience"
        ],
        [
          "familiar",
          "familiar"
        ],
        [
          "know",
          "know"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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      ],
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        {
          "english": "as far as I know",
          "text": "for ought ich wot",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
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      ],
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        ]
      ],
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        "to experience, to be familiar with (something):"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to know about (a topic)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "about",
          "about"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to find out; to become aware"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "find out",
          "find out"
        ],
        [
          "become",
          "become"
        ],
        [
          "aware",
          "aware"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to ask; to question"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ask",
          "ask"
        ],
        [
          "question",
          "question"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to be confident (something is the case or will happen)"
      ],
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        [
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          "confident"
        ],
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          "case#English"
        ],
        [
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          "happen#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to make known"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make known",
          "make known"
        ]
      ],
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        "(rare) to make known"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "wete"
    },
    {
      "word": "weten"
    },
    {
      "word": "wetyn"
    },
    {
      "word": "wite"
    },
    {
      "word": "witenn"
    },
    {
      "word": "witten"
    },
    {
      "word": "wyett"
    },
    {
      "word": "wyt"
    },
    {
      "word": "wyte"
    },
    {
      "word": "wyten"
    },
    {
      "word": "woten"
    }
  ],
  "word": "witen"
}

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  "msg": "''to be aware (of a situation, f'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
  "path": [
    "witen"
  ],
  "section": "Middle English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "witen",
  "trace": ""
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  "msg": "''to experience, to be familiar '[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
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