adaw

English

Etymology

Compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) adawe.

Verb

adaw (third-person singular simple present adaws, present participle adawing, simple past and past participle adawed)

1. (deprecated template usage) (obsolete) To subdue; to daunt.
   • Spenser

     He, comming home at undertime, there found / The fayrest creature, that he ever saw, / Sitting beside his mother on the ground; / The sight whereof did greatly him adaw.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “adaw”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Middle Welsh

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈadau̯/

Verb

adaw

1. to leave
2. to allow
3. to let go

Conjugation

• first-person singular present: adawaf, eidawaf
• third-person singular preterite: edewis

Descendants

• Welsh: adaw, ado