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Where does “wuess” come from?

wuess (Luxembourgish) comes from Old High German wahs, from Proto-Germanic wahsą, from Proto-Indo-European woḱ-so-.

wuess (Luxembourgish): second-person singular imperative of wuessen;...

Definitions

  1. second-person singular imperative of wuessen;...

Ancestry of “wuess”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High Germanwahswax
2Proto-Germanicwahsąwax
3Proto-Indo-Europeanwoḱ-so-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European woḱ-so- →