different between wizened vs wisen

English

Etymology

wizen +? ed.

Inherited from Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian, weosnian, from Proto-Germanic *wisn?jan. Cognate with Icelandic visna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?z?nd/, /?wiz?nd/

Verb

wizened

1. simple past tense and past participle of wizen

Adjective

wizened (comparative more wizened, superlative most wizened)

1. Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
   • 1816, Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality, ch. 8:

     "Ill-fard, crazy, crack-brained gowk, that she is!" exclaimed the housekeeper. . . "If it hadna been that I am mair than half a gentlewoman by my station, I wad hae tried my ten nails in the wizen'd hide o' her!"

   • 1907, Jack London, Before Adam, ch. 7:

     He was old, too, wizened with age, and the hair on his face was gray.

   • 2010 May 13, Richard Corliss, "Cannes: Best-Ever Film by a 101-Year-Old Man," Time (retrieved 5 Oct 2013):

     In the simple fable about old age reconciling itself to memory and destiny, Mastroianni wears the wizened smile of a man who knows he is visiting his youth for the last time.

Translations

English

Etymology

From wise +? -en.

Verb

wisen (third-person singular simple present wisens, present participle wisening, simple past and past participle wisened)

1. (intransitive) To become wise or wiser.
2. (transitive) To make wise or wiser.

Usage notes

Usually followed by up: "The ignorant always wisen up." -Charles Neal.

Anagrams

• Wenis, Wiens, Wines, sewin, sinew, swein, swine, we'ins, wenis, wines

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch w?sen, from Proto-West Germanic *w?sijan, from Proto-Germanic *w?sijan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wi?z?n/

Verb

wisen

1. to point out, to indicate
2. to lead
3. to teach
4. to assign
5. to determine

Inflection

Descendants

• Dutch: wijzen
• Limburgish: wieze

Further reading

• “wisen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “wisen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *w?sijan, from Proto-Germanic *w?sijan? (“to make wise”).

Verb

w?sen

1. to indicate, show
2. to lead, bring
3. to call
4. to invite

Conjugation

Derived terms

• daraw?sen
• daragiw?sen
• firw?sen
• follaw?sen
• framgiw?sen
• giw?sen
• ?zw?sen
• zisamanew?sen

Descendants

• Middle High German: w?sen
  • German: weisen
  • Luxembourgish: weisen
  • Yiddish: ??????? (vayzn)