Definition 2025
-wis
-wis
Old English
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Suffix
-wīs
- (adjectival suffix) denoting a specified way, manner, condition, habit or direction
- rihtwīs "right-wise, righteous, just"
- nīedwīs "necessary, needful"
- medwīs "dull, stupid, foolish"
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