Wot

Part of speech: pronoun, determiner

Definitions

1. To be aware of or have knowledge of something
2. To understand or be informed about a fact or situation
3. To possess information or awareness regarding something

Etymology: "Wot" is an archaic verb meaning "to know," surviving mainly in old texts and fixed phrases such as "God wot" and "to wit." Its roots go back to Old English "witan," meaning to know, which gave modern "wit." The English verb has a tangle of forms. A Middle English verb "woten," from Old English "weotan," existed alongside "wit," and "wot" was later extended from the present tense of "wit" to cover all of its forms. The two strands merged into the single word we see now. The same spelling also names a Thai instrument, "โหวด" (wòot), which shares no origin with the English verb. The coincidence is one of pronunciation: both are spelled with the same letters, but they come from unrelated languages.

Synonyms: know