Noun: witnes
Gender:
Nominative
| Singular | witnes |
| Plural | witnessa; witnesse |
Genitive
| Singular | witnesse |
| Plural | witnessa |
Dative
| Singular | witnesse |
| Plural | witnessum |
Accusative
| Singular | witnesse |
| Plural | witnessa; witnesse |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like witnes
setnes,
staþolfæstnes,
ontendnes,
beorhtnes,
fulfremednes,
godwrecnes,
angsumnes,
neowelnes,
neowolnes,
unfulfremednes,
biternes,
forsewennes,
gripennes,
aswundennes,
foresetnes,
staþolnes,
nihtsumnes,
twifealdnes,
unwemnes,
acennednes, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From witt (knowledge, wisdom) + -nes (-ness), akin to Old Norse vitni (whence the Danish vidne and Norwegian Bokmål vitne) and Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍄𐍅𐍉𐌸𐍃 (weitwōþs). See: Old Norse Nouns '
vitni', Danish Nouns '
vidne', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
vitne', Gothic Nouns '
𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍄𐍅𐍉𐌸𐍃'.
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