wawe
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English wawe, waghe. Not the same word as wave.
Noun
[edit]wawe (plural wawes)
- Alternative form of waw (“wave”)
References
[edit]- “wawe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From inflected forms in wāg- of Old English wǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *wāg, from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Early Middle English) IPA(key): /waɣ/
- IPA(key): /wau̯/
Noun
[edit]wawe (plural wawes)
- A wave (moving zone of water or other flowing substance; undulation)
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knyghtes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 1099-1100:
- And fro the navele doun al covered was / With wawes grene, and brighte as any glas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Any sort of flowing or spurting motion.
- (usually in the plural) The ocean; a large body of water.
- (figurative) A force of change or disruption.
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “wau(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-11.
Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]wawe
- Alternative form of wawy
Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]wawe
- Alternative form of wawen
Etymology 4
[edit]From Old English wāwa.
Noun
[edit]wawe
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of wowe
Swahili
[edit]Verb
[edit]wawe
- inflection of -wa:
Tunjung
[edit]Noun
[edit]wawe
References
[edit]- Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
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