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Ywis
Ywis Y*wis", adv. [OE. ywis, iwis, AS. gewis certain; akin to D. gewis, G. gewiss, and E. wit to know. See Wit to know, and Y-.] Certainly; most likely; truly; probably. [Obs. or Archaic] ``Ywis,' quod he, ``it is full dear, I say.' --Chaucer. She answered me, ``I-wisse, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato.' --Ascham. A right good knight, and true of word ywis. --Spenser. Note: The common form iwis was often written with the prefix apart from the rest of the word and capitalized, as, I wis, I wisse, etc. The prefix was mistaken for the pronoun, I and wis, wisse, for a form of the verb wit to know. See Wis, and cf. Wit, to know. Our ship, I wis, Shall be of another form than this. --Longfellow.

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- Williamson Airfield (ICAO: YWIS) is located near Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia within the Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area. Williamson Airfield...
- Abbot of the Monastery of St. Victor, Venerable, name also spelled Isarn Ywi 690 8 October Venerable, Deacon Zachariah the Recluse 301–400 24 March Desert...
- Iwig (alternatively Iwi, Iwigius, or Ywi of Lindisfarne) was a saint venerated in Wiltshire, England in the Middle Ages. He was reputedly a Northumbrian...
- makes reference to Herostratus in The House of Fame: "I am that ylke shrewe, ywis, / That brende the temple of Ysidis / In Athenes, loo, that citee." / "And...
- Airport) Holtze, Northern Territory Robertson Barracks Rockhampton, Queensland YWIS Williamson Airfield Singleton, New South Wales YDOC Dochra Airfield Townsville...
- vowels ㅣ i Negative, "heavy", or "yin" vowels ㅓ eo ㅕ yeo ㅝ wo ㅜ u ㅠ yu ㅡ eu ㅔ e ㅖ ye ㅞ we ㅟ wi (ㆌ ywi) ㅢ ui Obsolete and dialectal sounds in parentheses....
- Your Northern Beaches Independent Team 2017 Michael Regan Northern Beaches 5 / 15   YWI — Yvonne Weldon Independents 2023 Yvonne Weldon Sydney 1 / 10...
- party   Candidate Lyndon Gannon Yvonne Weldon Sean Masters Party Liberal YWI Libertarian First preference vote 10,857 9,038 3,234 Percentage 12.09% 10...
- baba- id baba- "the daughter(s) of" ylli- ysti- "the son(s) of" yiw-, yu-, ywi- (t-arwa) the plural is a pl.m. inflected noun "sons, offspring" "the sister(s)...
- Davis's 1907 book—The Tomb of Iouiya and Touiyou. These include "iAy", "ywiA", yw [reed-leaf with walking feet] A, ywiw" and, in orthography—normally...