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waw

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See also:WAW

Translingual

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Symbol

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waw

(international standards)ISO 639-3 language code forWaiwai.

English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishwawen,waȝien, fromOld Englishwagian(“to move, shake, swing, totter”), fromProto-West Germanic*wagōn, fromProto-Germanic*wagōną(“to move”), fromProto-Indo-European*weǵʰ-(“to drag, carry”).

Cognate withGermanwagen(“to venture, dare, risk”),Dutchwagen(“to venture, dare, also to move, stir”),Swedishvåga(“to dare”).

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /wɔː/
Audio(Southern England): (file)
Rhymes:-ɔː
Homophone:war

Verb

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waw (third-person singular simple presentwaws,present participlewawing,simple past and past participlewawed)

(transitive, obsolete) Tostir;move;wave.

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishwawe,waȝe,waghe, fromOld Englishwǣg(“motion, water, wave, billow, flood, sea”), fromProto-West Germanic*wāg, fromProto-Germanic*wēgaz(“wave, storm”), fromProto-Indo-European*weǵʰ-(“to drag, carry”).

Cognate withNorth Frisianweage(“water, wave”),GermanWag,Woge(“wave”),Frenchvague(“wave”),Swedishvåg(“wave”).

waw (pluralwaws)

(obsolete) Awave.
- 1590,Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] forWilliam 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 helplessewawes.

Etymology 3

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FromMiddle Englishwawe,wowe,waugh,wough, fromOld Englishwāh,wāg(“a wall, partition”), fromProto-Germanic*waigaz(“wall”), fromProto-Indo-European*weyk-(“to bend, twist”).

Cognate withScotswauch,vauch,Saterland FrisianWooge(“indoor wall, partition”).

Alternative forms

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wo(Northern England, Derbyshire)
waugh(Scotland)

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /wɔː/
Audio(Southern England): (file)
Rhymes:-ɔː
Homophone:war

Noun

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waw (pluralwaws)

(Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) Awall.
- 1678, John Ray,A Collection of English Proverbs, section 75:
  She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and awaw a wall.
- 1886, Thomas Farrall,Betty Wilson's Cummerland Teals, section 41:
  T'ootsidewaws was whitewesh't.
- For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:wo.

Etymology 4

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FromArabicوَاو(wāw).Doublet ofwau.

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /wɑːw/,/waʊ/

Noun

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waw (pluralwaws)

The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet:و.
Alternative spelling ofvav
- 2006, George Athas,The Tel Dan Inscription: A Reappraisal and a New Introduction, page147:
  Rather, thewaws of both fragments are demonstrably similar. What Cryer and Becking fail to note is that the style ofwaw used in Fragment B is also used in Fragment A.

Translations

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Arabic letter

Anagrams

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Ibatan

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Etymology

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CompareYamiawaw andTagaloguhaw.

Adjective

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waw

thirsty

Ivatan

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Etymology

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Cognate withYamiawaw.

Adjective

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waw

thirsty

Maguindanao

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Noun

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waw

thirst

Mapudungun

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Etymology

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(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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waw(Raguileo spelling)

Avalley.

References

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Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.