Talk:Wesen/@comment-95.148.230.53-20180809232620

It's wessen as in lesson; not wesen as in reason! If the word is meant to be German, the form "wesen" would be pronounced with a long first syllable, something like vay-zen. In the form we+sen the first syllable is considered open (i.e. not closed off by a consonant) and is therefore pronounced as a long vowel. Since in the show the word is consistently pronounced like English lesson, it follows that the German word would be "wessen" - wes+sen with a closed-hence short-first syllable. That, as Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm knew quite well, is the point of double consonants in Germanic languages!