wain
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English wayn, from Old English wæġn, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos, from *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”). Doublet of wagon, borrowed from Middle Dutch.
Cognates
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]wain (plural wains)
- (archaic or literary) A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
- "The Hay Wain" is a famous painting by John Constable.
- 1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Minas Tirith”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings […], New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, book V, page 40:
- Many roads and tracks crossed the green fields, and there was much coming and going: wains moving in lines towards the Great Gate, and others passing out.
Alternative forms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]a wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen
Verb
[edit]wain (third-person singular simple present wains, present participle waining, simple past and past participle wained)
- (rare, transitive) To carry.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]wain (third-person singular simple present wains, present participle waining, simple past and past participle wained)
- Misspelling of wane.
- 2008, "From Mowtown to ‘Growtown’? Detroit’s urban farming catches the eye of the BBC", modelD:
- As the auto industry is waining away, the city is looking for something new. [1]
- 2008, "From Mowtown to ‘Growtown’? Detroit’s urban farming catches the eye of the BBC", modelD:
Etymology 3
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]wain (plural wains)
- Alternative form of wean.
Related terms
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[edit]Chuukese
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[edit]wain
Japanese
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Lubuagan Kalinga
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[edit]wain
Marshallese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English wine, from Middle English wyn, win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (phonetic) IPA(key): [wɑːinʲ], (enunciated) [wɑ inʲ]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /wæɰjinʲ/
- Bender phonemes: {wahyin}
Noun
[edit]wain
References
[edit]Medebur
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Further reading
[edit]- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Middle English
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[edit]wain
- Alternative form of wayn (“wagon”)
Tok Pisin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
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[edit]wain
Descendants
[edit]- → Rotokas: uain
Welsh
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[edit]Noun
[edit]wain
- Soft mutation of gwain.
Mutation
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