different between wot vs wrt
wot
- See also: WOT
English
Pronunciation
- (General Australian) enPR: w?t, IPA(key): /w?t/
- (UK) enPR: w?t, IPA(key): /w?t/
- (US) enPR: wät, IPA(key): /w?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
- Homophones: watt, what (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Etymology 1
An extension of the present-tense form of wit (verb) to apply to all forms.
Verb
wot (third-person singular simple present wots, present participle wotting, simple past and past participle wotted)
- (archaic) To know.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John XII:
- He that walketh in the darke, wotteth not whither he goeth.
- 1855, John Godfrey Saxe, Poems, Ticknor & Fields 1855, p. 121:
- She little wots, poor Lady Anne! Her wedded lord is dead.
- 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Garden of Proserpine" in Poems and Ballads, 1st Series, London: J. C. Hotten, 1866:
- They wot not who make thither […]
- 1889, William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains, Inkling Books 2003, p. 241:
- Then he cast his eyes on the road that entered the Market-stead from the north, and he saw thereon many men gathered; and he wotted not what they were […]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John XII:
Etymology 2
From wit, in return from Old English witan.
Verb
wot
- first-person singular present indicative of wit
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wit
Etymology 3
Representing pronunciation.
Interjection
wot
- Pronunciation spelling of what.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin 2003, p. 319)
- Then, wot with undertakers, and wot with parish clerks, and wot with sextons, and wot with private watchmen (all awaricious and all in it), a man wouldn't get much by it, even if it was so.
- (popular slogan during wartime rationing)
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin 2003, p. 319)
Etymology 4
Adverb
wot (not comparable)
- (Singlish) Alternative form of wat (used to contradict an assumption)
Anagrams
- OTW, TOW, Tow, WTO, owt, tow, two
Kriol
Etymology
From English what.
Pronoun
wot
- (interrogative) what
Synonyms
- wani/wanim
Lower Sorbian
Preposition
wot (with genitive)
- Superseded spelling of wót.
Middle English
Verb
wot
- first/third-person singular present indicative of witen
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English ward.
Noun
wot
- ward
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wrt
English
Preposition
wrt
- Alternative spelling of WRT
Anagrams
- RTW
Egyptian
Etymology 1
wr (“great”) +? -t (adverbializing suffix).
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /w?r?t/
- Conventional anglicization: weret
Adverb
- very
Usage notes
This adverb is one of the few elements that can intervene between the predicate of an adjectival sentence and its subject (thus directly following the initial adjective).
Etymology 2
wr (“great”) +? -t (feminine suffix).
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /w?r?t/
- Conventional anglicization: weret
Noun
f
- (female) great one (common epithet for goddesses)
Inflection
Proper noun
f
- a sacred barque
Alternative forms
Proper noun
f
- the Red Crown
Proper noun
f
- Alternative form of wrrt (“the White Crown”)
References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, ?ISBN, page 330.1–330.6, 331.1–331.3, 331.15–332.10
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, ?ISBN, page 64
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, 95 page 71, 95.
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English wyrt (“plant, herb”).
Noun
wrt
- Alternative form of wort (“plant”)
Etymology 2
From Old English wyrt, wyrte (“wort”).
Noun
wrt
- Alternative form of wort (“brewing wort”)
wrt From the web:
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- what write in a wedding card
- what writes on glass
- what writing style is used in business
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