different between weet vs jeet

English

Etymology

From Middle English weten, a Middle English variant of witen (“to know”). More at wit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?t/

Verb

weet (third-person singular simple present weets, present participle weeting, simple past and past participle weeted)

1. (archaic) To know.
   • 1607, Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, Scene iii, 37-41:

     The nobleness of life / Is to do thus, when such a mutual pair / And such a twain can do ’t, in which I bind, / On pain of punishment, the world to weet / We stand up peerless.

   • 1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 13:

     I wept for myself, but resigned my soul to the tyranny of Time and Circumstance, well weeting that Fortune is fair and constant to no man.

Anagrams

• ewte, twee

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• wiet (Cape Afrikaans)

Etymology

From Dutch weten (“to know”), from Middle Dutch weten, from Old Dutch witan, from Proto-Germanic *witan?, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Related to the English wit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??t/

Verb

weet (present weet, present participle wetende, past wis, past participle geweet)

1. to know
2. to be aware of

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?t/
• Hyphenation: weet
• Rhymes: -e?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wete.

Noun

weet f (plural weten, diminutive weetje n)

1. awareness, knowledge
2. knowledge; science.
3. (archaic) notice; advertisement.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

weet

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of weten
2. imperative of weten
3. singular past indicative of wijten

Anagrams

• twee, wete

Limburgish

Etymology

From Old Dutch *wit, from Proto-Germanic *wet, *wit. A rare example of the old dual pronoun surviving into a modern West Germanic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [we?t], [we?ð]

Pronoun

weet

1. nominative dual of ich

Luxembourgish

Verb

weet

1. inflection of weeden:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular/plural imperative

Middle Dutch

Verb

wêet

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of w?ten

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian hw?te, w?t, from Proto-West Germanic *hwait?.

Noun

weet c (plural weten)

1. wheat

Further reading

• “weet (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

A compressed pronunciation of the words did you (d'ya) eat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?it/, /d?i?/

Interjection

jeet

1. (US, slang) Did you eat?
   • 2002, The Postal Record (volume 115, page 17)

     So it will come as no surprise if a local inquires whether you've eaten yet — or, as Philadelphians say, "Jeet yet?"

Anagrams

• jete, jeté

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /je?t/, /?e?t/

Verb

jeet

1. third-person singular present indicative of joen