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Wei ,, in , , ‘to make one believe, hoax a person,’ from , late einen wîs machen, ‘to inform a person, instruct him’ (in  in an ironical sense). and wîs tuon, ‘to inform, instruct.’ Allied to ,, ‘wise, prudent, cunning,’ From  and  wîs (also  wîse,  wîsi), , ‘intelligible, experienced, acquainted with, learned, wise.’ A common  ;   weis, ‘knowing,’  and  wîs, ‘wise, knowing,’  wise,  wijs. The primary form of the word was a verbal from  (wîso- for wîtto-). Allied to the following word.  ,, ‘manner, mode, way,’ from wîse,  wîsa, , ‘method’; corresponding to the   wîse,  wise,  wijze,  wîsa. From this West word (in  vísa) the   cognates,  guisa,  guise, are derived. wîsô-n- seems, like, to be derived from the root wī̆t, ‘to know’; hence ,  ‘knowledge’?. See. — The suffix (e.g., in ) has been developed in  in connection with  phrases, such as in rëgenes wîs, ‘like rain.’   ',, ‘queen bee,’ from the  wîsel, ,  ‘leader, guide.’ Allied to ', , ‘to show, direct, point,’ from  wîsen   ,  wîsen (from *wîsjan),  , ‘to show, direct, instruct’; a derivative of  (hence  ‘to make wise’).  ,, ‘to foretell, prophesy, predict,’ from the  wîssagen,  wîssagôn,  ; it is not organically connected with. Based on wîȥȥago (wîȥago), ‘prophet,’ a derivative of the  root wī̆t, ‘to know’ (  wîtga, ‘prophet’). This form was corrupted to wîssagôn in the period by connecting it with wîs, ‘wise,’ and sago, ‘speaker,’ or rather with  forasago ( wâr-sago), ‘prophet.’  wîȥȥago is properly a  formed from the   *wîtag, ‘knowing, intelligible, wise’  (wîtig).  ,, ‘legal precedent, record,’ from late (rare) wîstuonm,  and , ‘sentence, instruction (to the jury),’  ‘wisdom’; allied to  (  wisdom).   ,, ‘white, blank,’ from the  and  wîȥ (from hwîȥ), ; corresponding to  hweits,   hvítr,  and  hwít,  wit,  white. This common term (hwîto-) is based on an Aryan root kwī̆d, kwī̆t, from which are derived  çvit, ‘to be white, to shine’ (so too çvêtá, çvitrá, çvitna, ‘white’), Zend spaẹta, ‘white,’  světŭ, ‘light,’ and  szvaitýti, ‘to make bright.’  hwaiteis (, ‘wheat’), is related by gradation.  ,, ‘wide, broad, ample,’ from the  and  wît; corresponding to  and  wîd,  wide,  wijd,  víðr, ‘roomy, extended, spacious.’ Allied to  vîtá, ‘straight’?. From its form vî-do- seems to be a  derivative of a root wī̆.  ,, ‘wheat,’ from weitze,  weizzi,. The (unknown only in ?) variant  (Swiss,, Wetterau, , Hennegau, and Thuringian) is based on  weiȥe,  weiȥi (tz and sz interchanged in this word on account of the older inflectional interchange of tj and ti;   and ); hence  as well as ?. Corresponding to the  hwaiteis ( hwaitja),  hveite,  hwœ̂te,  wheat,  weit,  hwêti. kvëtẏs, ‘grains of wheat,’ is borrowed from. is rightly regarded, on account of the white flour, as a derivative of (  çvitnyá çvêtá, ‘white’).  ,, ‘which, what,’ from wëlch, wëlich,  ,  wë-, wie-lī̆h (hh and h),  , ‘who, which’; corresponding to  hwileiks (hwêleiks),  hwilik,  welk,  hwylč,  which. A common derivative, from the pronominal stem hwe- (see ) and the suffix lîko-, ‘constituted’ (see  and ); hence,  ‘as constituted.’  ,, ‘whelp, cub,’ from the  and  wëlf (earlier hwëlf,  and ); corresponding to  hvelpr,  hwëlp ( whelp). This word hwelpo-, which was used at an early period,  of ‘cubs,’ has no cognates in the non- languages. is not allied.  ,, ‘withered, faded,’ from and  wëlc (wëlch), ‘moist, mild, lukewarm, faded’; peculiar to ; connected with  welken,  to welk, and. The primary meaning of the root welk, from Aryan welg, is ‘to be moist,’ as is indicated also by  vlaga, ‘moistness,’ vlûgûkû, ‘moist,’  vìlgyti, ‘to