waw
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English wawen, waȝien, from Old English wagian (“to move, shake, swing, totter”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagōn, from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”).
Cognate with German wagen (“to venture, dare, risk”), Dutch wagen (“to venture, dare, also to move, stir”), Swedish våga (“to dare”).
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waw (third-person singular simple present waws, present participle wawing, simple past and past participle wawed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To stir; move; wave.
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English wawe, waȝe, waghe, from Old English wǣg (“motion, water, wave, billow, flood, sea”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāg, from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“wave, storm”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”).
Cognate with North Frisian weage (“water, wave”), German Wag, Woge (“wave”), French vague (“wave”), Swedish våg (“wave”).
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Noun[edit]
waw (plural waws)
- (obsolete) A wave.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- […] nigh it drawes
All passengers, that none from it can shift:
For whiles they fly that Gulfes deuouring iawes,
They on this rock are rent, and sunck in helplesse wawes.
Etymology 3[edit]
From Middle English wawe, wowe, waugh, wough, from Old English wāh, wāg (“a wall, partition”), from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, twist”).
Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch, Saterland Frisian Wooge (“indoor wall, partition”).
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waw (plural waws)
- (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) A wall.
- 1678, John Ray, A Collection of English Proverbs, section 75:
- She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and a waw a wall.
- 1886, Thomas Farrall, Betty Wilson's Cummerland Teals, section 41:
- T'ootside waws was whitewesh't.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:wo.
Etymology 4[edit]
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Noun[edit]
waw (plural waws)
- The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و.
- Alternative spelling of vav
- 2006, George Athas, The Tel Dan Inscription: A Reappraisal and a New Introduction, page 147:
- Rather, the waws of both fragments are demonstrably similar. What Cryer and Becking fail to note is that the style of waw used in Fragment B is also used in Fragment A.
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Ibatan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare Yami awaw and Tagalog uhaw.
Adjective[edit]
waw
Ivatan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
waw
Maguindanao[edit]
Noun[edit]
waw
Mapudungun[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
waw (Raguileo spelling)
- A valley.
References[edit]
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Maranao[edit]
Noun[edit]
waw
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
waw
- Alternative form of wawe
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
waw m (plural waws)
- Alternative spelling of uau
Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English wagian (“wave, undulate”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
waw (plural waws)
- (water) wave
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- sco:Water