wit2

 
Pronunciation: /wɪt/

verb (wot /wɒt/, witting; past and past participle wist /wɪst/)

[no object]
  • 1 archaic have knowledge: I addressed a few words to the lady you wot of
  • 2 (to wit) that is to say (used to be more specific about something already referred to): the textbooks show an irritating parochialism, to wit an almost total exclusion of papers not in English

Origin:

Old English witan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch weten and German wissen, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit veda 'knowledge' and Latin videre 'see'