wise – Old English noun declension

Noun: wise
Gender:

Nominative

Singular	wīse
Plural	wīsan

Genitive

Singular	wīsan
Plural	wīsena

Dative

Singular	wīsan
Plural	wīsum

Accusative

Singular	wīsan
Plural	wīsan

Sample Sentences

Ne līcaþ mē sēo wīse þe hēo mē on lōcaþ. (I don't like the way she looks at me.)
c. 992, Ælfric, "Midlent Sunday"
On ōðre wīsan wē sċēawiaþ mētinge and on ōðre wīsan stafas. Ne gǣþ nā māre tō mētinge būtan þæt þū hit ġesēo and herie. Nis nā ġenōg þæt þū stafas sċēawiġe būtan þū hīe ēac rǣde and þæt andġiet understande. (We look at pictures in one way and letters in another. You don't do anything with a painting except see it and praise it. Looking at letters is not enough unless you also read them and understand the meaning.)
Hǣðensċipe biþ þæt man dēofolġield weorðiġe, þæt is þæt man weorðiġe hǣðenu godu and sunnan oþþe mōnan, fȳr oþþe flōd, wæterwiellas oþþe stānas oþþe ǣniġes cynnes wudutreowu, oþþe wiċċecræft lufiġe oþþe morðweorc ġefremme on ǣniġe wīsan, oþþe on blōte oþþe frihte, oþþe swelcra gedwimera ǣniġ þing drēoge. (Worshiping idols is a kind of paganism, whether one worships heathen gods and the sun or the moon, or fire or flood, or wells or stones or any kind of forest trees, or if one loves witchcraft or commits murder in any way, either by sacrifice or by divination, or takes any part in similar delusions.) [c. 1021, Wulfstan, Winchester Code of Cnut, article 5.1:]

Nouns inflected like wise

wise,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wīsā, from Proto-Germanic *wīsō, *wīsaz. Cognate with Dutch wijze, German Weise, Swedish vis, Italian guisa, Spanish guisa. See: Dutch Nouns 'wijze', German Nouns 'Weise', Swedish Nouns 'vis', Italian Nouns 'guisa', Spanish Nouns 'guisa'.

Verbs referencing "wise"

Swedish Nouns vis.