wis
/wɪs/verb
(wisses, wissed, wissing)no obj.
- archaic know well〈古〉知道; 清楚:
and, you wis, Lord Julian is a hasty man.
你知道的, 朱利安大人是个急性子的人。
词源
early 16th cent.: originally in I wis, alteration of the obsolete adverb iwis 'certainly', erroneously interpreted as 'I know' (associated with wist, past tense of WIT2).