wawe

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English wawe, waghe. Not the same word as wave.

Noun

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wawe (plural wawes)

  1. Alternative form of waw (wave)

References

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From inflected forms in wāg- of Old English wǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *wāg, from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz.

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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wawe (plural wawes)

  1. A wave (moving zone of water or other flowing substance; undulation)
  2. Any sort of flowing or spurting motion.
  3. (usually in the plural) The ocean; a large body of water.
  4. (figurative) A force of change or disruption.
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Descendants
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  • English: waw, wawe (obsolete)
  • Scots: waw
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Etymology 2

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Adjective

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wawe

  1. Alternative form of wawy

Etymology 3

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Verb

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wawe

  1. Alternative form of wawen

Etymology 4

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From Old English wāwa.

Noun

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wawe

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of wowe

Swahili

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Verb

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wawe

  1. inflection of -wa:
    1. third-person plural subjunctive affirmative
    2. m-wa class subject inflected plural subjunctive affirmative

Tunjung

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Noun

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wawe

  1. woman

References

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  • Austronesian Comparative Dictionary