wees
Afrikaans
/vɪəs/
verb
Definitions
- to be
Etymology
Inherited from Dutch, Flemish wezen (sector, be, state, condition, creature, system, institution, occupation) inherited from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (be, remain, graze, consume, feast).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*wesaną
Gloss
be, remain, graze, consume, feast
Concept
Semantic Field
Miscellaneous function words
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Wesen German
- aanwezig Dutch, Flemish
- bankwezen Dutch, Flemish
- dijkwezen Dutch, Flemish
- fabelwezen Dutch, Flemish
- geldwezen Dutch, Flemish
- leedwezen Dutch, Flemish
- mijnwezen Dutch, Flemish
- ruimtewezen Dutch, Flemish
- vetewezen Dutch, Flemish
- wegwezen Dutch, Flemish
- wezen Dutch, Flemish
- wezenlijk Dutch, Flemish
- zeewezen Dutch, Flemish
- *bʰew- Proto-Indo-European
- *es- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁ésti Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂wes- Proto-Indo-European
- *beuną Proto-Germanic
- *esi/*izi Proto-Germanic
- *isti Proto-Germanic
- *wesaną Proto-Germanic
- bēon Old English
- wesan Old English
- ætwesan Old English
- vera Old Norse
- vesa Old Norse
- vesa, vera Old Norse
- vist Old Norse
- sīn Old High German
- wesan Old High German
- wese Afrikaans
- 𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *wesan gmw-pro
- wesan Old Dutch
- wesan Old Saxon
- wesa Old Frisian