Makes something damp or soaked with water or liquid; or as a noun, plural of 'wet'—people or things that are wet.
From Old English 'wætan' meaning to make wet. A simple Germanic root that has remained largely unchanged for over 1,000 years.
The Old English word 'wætan' is so ancient and unchanged that it's almost identical to Dutch 'wetten' and German 'wässern'—showing how stable this root concept is across Germanic languages!
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