adaw

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdɔː/

Etymology 1

From a- +‎ daw (“to wake up; to daunt”). Compare Middle English adawen.

Verb

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

1. (obsolete, transitive) To daunt, overcome.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13:

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

   • 1583, Brian Melbancke, Philotimus. The warre betwixt nature and fortune, page 123:

     But friezing colde adawes the frying heate […]

   • 1658, James Ussher, The annals of the world deduced from the origin of time, page 249:

     They perceiving, and being adawed at his constancy and resolution, took the advantage of a darke night, and fled every man of them, by that way out of the rock.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To awaken, arouse.
   • 1544, Gesta Romanorum:

     And hir awook, and thus to hir he cried, "Woman, what is that, that in thin hand I see? What hast thou doon, woman, for him that diede, What wickid spirit hath travaylid the?" And as sone as that adawed was she, The knyfe fel oute of hir hand in the bedde, And she bihilde the cloothis al forbledde, And the childe dead.

   • 1560, William Baldwin, The funeralles of King Edward the sixt:

     The soulles body about the bed did sprall, / While they about it on the King did call, / Adawing him as if he wer in swound: / But all for nought, he had his deadly wound.

   • 2021, Iraklis Ioannidis, Altruism or the Other as the Essence of Existence:

     To arrive to knowledge is to have an itinerary, a passage out of dreaming, to adaw, to be awake (délit).

See also

• bedaw

Anagrams

• Awad, WADA, Wada, da'wa, dawa

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

adaw

1. baby monkey

Middle Welsh

Etymology 1

Most likely related to modern gadael (“to allow, let”).

Pronunciation

• 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

Etymology 2

Related to Etymology 1.

Alternative forms

• adav

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaðau̯/

Verb

aðaw

1. to promise

Descendants

• Welsh: addo

Mutation

Middle Welsh mutation
Radical	Soft	Nasal	H-prothesis
adaw	unchanged	unchanged	hadaw
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle Welsh mutation
Radical	Soft	Nasal	H-prothesis
aðaw	unchanged	unchanged	haðaw
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.