Old English · suffix
-wise
Normalised -wīse
- Part of speech
- suffix, feminine
- Declension
- weak n-stem
- IPA
- /ˌwiː.se/[ˌwiː.ze]
- Syllables
- ˌwiː · se (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- statefashionconditiondirection
Meaning
-
state of, manner of, condition; direction
riht (“just, right”) + -wīse → rihtwīse (“righteousness, justice”)
-
the custom or fashion of
mynster (“minister”) + -wīse → mynsterwīse (“monastic custom”)
-
in the manner or fashion of; in the direction of
hyse (“son, youth”) + -wīse → hysewīse (“like a young man”)
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From wīse (“manner, way, condition, direction”).
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