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wott

wott is the alternative form of wot.

Meaning of wot

Verb

wot (third-person singular simple present wots, present participle wotting, simple past and past participle wotted)

  1. (archaic) To know (a fact).
    • He that walketh in the darke, wotteth not whither he goeth.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John

Noun

wott (uncountable)

  1. A hearty Ethiopian or Eritrean stew.

Forms of wott

third-person singular presentwotts
present participlewotting
past participlewotted
pastwotted
second-person singular present (archaic)wottest
second-person singular past (archaic)wottedst
third-person singular present (archaic)wotteth

Origin of wott

From Amharic ወጥ (wäṭ).

Questions about wott

What does wott mean?
Wott means a hearty Ethiopian or Eritrean stew.
What is wott the alternative form of?
Wott is the alternative form of wot.
What part of speech is wott?
Wott is a noun.

Words near wott in the dictionary

  1. Wotrings
  2. Wotruba
  3. wots
  4. wotsit
  5. wotsits
  6. wott
  7. wotte
  8. wotted
  9. wottedst
  10. Wottergate
  11. wottes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wott (page history and authors); wot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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