Het wis if ee newt
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- het was of ie wist: (Dutch) it was as if he knew it
- Het: (Russian) No → using the Cyrillic alphabet, this is how the Russian word for No, usually transliterated as Nyet, looks → Het wis if ee newt = Not wise if he knew it
- wise
- wissen (German) to know
- newt (Macbeth) Eye of newt
