wet

Dutch (Brabantic)

/ʋɛt/

noun
Definitions
  • law rule
  • law body of rules declared and/or enforced by a government
  • (physics) law

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Dutch wet inherited from Old Dutch witat root from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (see, know, behold, perceive, find, view, look at).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*weyd-

Gloss

see, know, behold, perceive, find, view, look at

Concept
Semantic Field

Sense perception

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

知

Emoji
🙈 🪚

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