iwis
See also: I wis
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From Middle English iwis, iwys, ywis (“certain, sure”), from Old English ġewiss (“certain, sure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gawiss, from Proto-Germanic *gawissaz (“known, certain, sure”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”).
Cognate with Dutch gewis (“sure”), German gewiss (“certain”), Danish vis (“sure”). More at wit, wis.
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iwis (not comparable)
- (poetic, archaic) Certainly, surely, indeed.
- 1842, Thomas Macaulay, Horatius:
- Iwis, in all the Senate
There was no heart so bold […].
- 1890, James Russell Lowell, Poetical Works:
- God vanished long ago, iwis, A mere subjective synthesis
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