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wot |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Weet \Weet\, v. i. [imp. {Wot}.] [See {Wit} to know.] To know to wit. [Obs.] --Tyndale. Spenser. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wot \Wot\, 1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Wit}, to know See the {Note} under {Wit}, v. [Obs.] Brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it --Acts iii. 17. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wit \Wit\, v. t. & i. [inf. To {Wit}; pres. sing. {Wot}; pl {Wite}; imp. {Wist(e)}; p. p. {Wist}; p. pr & vb n. {Wit(t)ing}. See the Note below.] [OE. witen, pres. ich wot, wat, I know (wot), imp. wiste, AS witan, pres. w[=a]t, imp. wiste, wisse; akin to OFries wita, OS witan, D. weten, G. wissen, OHG. wizzan Icel. vita, Sw veta, Dan. vide, Goth. witan to observe, wait I know Russ. vidiete to see L. videre Gr ?, Skr. vid to know learn; cf Skr. vid to find ????. Cf {History}, {Idea}, {Idol}, {-oid}, {Twit}, {Veda}, {Vision}, {Wise}, a. & n., {Wot}.] To know to learn. ``I wot and wist alway.'' --Chaucer.