wawe
English
Etymology
From Middle English wawe, waghe. Not the same word as wave.
Noun
wawe (plural wawes)
- Alternative form of waw (“wave”)
References
- wawe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Middle English
Etymology 1
From inflected forms in wāg- of Old English wǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *wāg, from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz.
Alternative forms
- waghe, waue, waȝe, wau, waw
Pronunciation
- (Early ME) IPA(key): /waɣ/
- IPA(key): /wau̯/
Noun
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 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, 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 quote)
- 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
- wawy
Descendants
- English: waw, wawe (obsolete)
- Scots: waw
References
- “wau(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-11.
Etymology 2
From wawe + -y.
Adjective
wawe
- Alternative form of wawy
Etymology 3
From Old English wagian.
Verb
wawe
- Alternative form of wawen
Etymology 4
From Old English wāwa.
Noun
wawe
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of wowe
Swahili
Verb
wawe
- inflection of -wa:
- third-person plural subjunctive affirmative
- m-wa class subject inflected plural subjunctive affirmative
Tunjung
Noun
wawe
- woman
References
- Austronesian Comparative Dictionary