English
Pronunciation
(UK): IPA|/w�t/, SAMPA|/wQt/
(US): AHD|wät, IPA|/w�t/, SAMPA|/wAt/
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�t|-�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
en-verb|wot|t|ed
- archaic To know.
#*1855: She little wots, poor Lady Anne! Her wedded lord is dead. � John Godfrey Saxe, Poems (Ticknor & Fields 1855, p. 121)
#*1866: They wot not who make thither � Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Garden of Proserpine" in Poems and Ballads, 1st Series (London: J. C. Hotten, 1866)
#*1889: 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 � William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains (Inkling Books 2003, p. 241)
Etymology 2
From wit, in return from Old English verb witan.
Verb
wot
- First-person singular simple present form of wit.
- third-person singular of|wit
Category:English first-person singular forms
Category:English irregular first-person singular forms
Category:English irregular third-person singular forms
Etymology 3
Representing pronunciation.
Interjection
wot
- what (humorous misspelling intended to mimic certain working class accents)
#*1859: 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. � Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin 2003, p. 319)
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