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Woot (v.) - knew, past tense of "witen"
Unto the village of the which I tolde,
In this array the righte wey han holde.
Grisilde of this, God /woot/, ful innocent,
That for hire shapen was al this array,
To fecchen water at a welle is went,
- Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury tales (1387-1394)
Pronunciation: /woUt/
Key
/w/ w in we, away
/oU/ o in note
/t/ t in tie
The Middle-English Word of the Day is selected from Mayhew and Skeat's "Concise Dictionary of Middle English", as found on Greg Lindahl's website
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/concise/concise.html
Unto the village of the which I tolde,
In this array the righte wey han holde.
Grisilde of this, God /woot/, ful innocent,
That for hire shapen was al this array,
To fecchen water at a welle is went,
- Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury tales (1387-1394)
Pronunciation: /woUt/
Key
/w/ w in we, away
/oU/ o in note
/t/ t in tie
The Middle-English Word of the Day is selected from Mayhew and Skeat's "Concise Dictionary of Middle English", as found on Greg Lindahl's website
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/concise/concise.html