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wos

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English

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Verb

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wos

  1. Eye dialect spelling of was.
    • 1876, Edward Everett Hale, “Phillip Nolan's Friends; or, 'Show Your Passports!'”, in Scribner's Monthly, volume XII, number 1, page 20:
      She wos real good to 'em all, she wos, ma'am.
  2. (Mid-Ulster) was
    • 1983, William Forbes Marshall, John the Liar:
      But there wos John, he had his two han's up,

Anagrams

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Bavarian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old High German waz, hwaz, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod. Cognate with German was, Silesian East Central German woas (was), Dutch wat, English what, Danish hvad.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vɔːs/, /βɔːs/, [-ɔ-], [-o-], [-oː-]

Pronoun

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wos

  1. (interrogative) what
    Wos gibts'n heid z'Mittåg?What's for lunch today?
  2. (relative) which (referring to the entire preceding clause)
    Sie is a guade Tänzerin, wos er bewundert.She is a good dancer, which he admires.
  3. (relative) that, which (referring to des, ois, ollas, wos/wås, nix, and neuter substantival adjectives)
    Des is nix, wos ma ned repariern ko.This is nothing that you can't fix.
    Er håd ois gsågt, wos er waß.He has told everything that he knows.
  4. (relative, chiefly East Central Bavarian) that, which, who, whom (referring to any term in the preceding clause)
    Synonym: (West Central) wo
    Des is de Frau, wos i gsehn håb.This is the woman who I saw.
    Koatn gibt's åm Schoiter, wos då hintn is.Tickets are available at the counter which is back there.
  5. (relative, East Central Bavarian) (inserted after the relative pronouns der, de, des, dem, den, dena, dera
    Synonym: (West Central) wo
    Des is de Frau, de wos i gsehn håb.This is the woman who I saw.
    Koatn gibt's åm Schoiter, der wos då hintn is.Tickets are available at the counter which is back there.
  6. (indefinite) something, anything
    I håb wos gfunden.I've found something.
  7. (interrogative) why (with emphasis, astonishment or disapproval)
    Wos håst des gmåcht?Why on earth did you do that?

Catawba

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Etymology

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The word is related to wus, wuss (wasp).

Noun

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wos

  1. bee

Javanese

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Romanization

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wos

  1. Romanization of ꦮꦺꦴꦱ꧀

Lower Sorbian

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Noun

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wos f (diminutive woska)

  1. Superseded spelling of wós.

Declension

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Middle English

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Pronoun

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wos

  1. Alternative form of whos (whose, genitive)

Mokilese

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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wos

  1. reef

North Frisian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian wars, from Proto-Germanic *wazrą.

Noun

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wos m

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) spring

Old English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-West Germanic *wōs, from Proto-Germanic *wōsą, from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (to flow). Akin to Middle Low German wose (foam; froth), Old English wāse (marsh; mire).

Noun

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wōs n (nominative plural wōs)

  1. juice, sap; moisture
    • Leech Book, Leech Book, Volume I, Fiveleaf, or Cinquefoil. III.
      Wiþ ǣlces dæġes mannes tȳddernysse inneweardes, nime þonne weġbrǣdan, dō on wīn and sūp þ wōs and et þā weġbrǣdan; ðonne dēah hit wið ǣġhwylcre innancundre unhǣlo.
      For every days tenderness of a man inwardly, let him take then waybread, put it in wine, and sip the juice and eat the waybread; then it is good for any inward unheal (infirmity).
Declension
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Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative wōs wōs
accusative wōs wōs
genitive wōses wōsa
dative wōse wōsum
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Descendants
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  • Middle English: wos, wose

Etymology 2

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Inflected forms.

Noun

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wōs

  1. genitive singular of wōh

Tok Pisin

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Noun

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wos

  1. sentinel