Abbreviation of English Walser or German Walserdeutsch.

wae

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Walser German.

wae

1. (Scotland) Alternative form of with.

wae (countable and uncountable, plural waes)

1. (Scotland) Alternative form of woe.

   Wae is me!

• AEW, Awe, EAW, WEA, awe, eaw

wae

1. alternative spelling of waé (“water”)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

wae

1. (Namrole Bay) water

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

From Proto-Polynesian *waqe (“leg” – compare with Maori wae, Tahitian vae and Tahitian ʻāvae, Tongan vaʻe). from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *waqay from Proto-Austronesian *waqay.

wae

1. (rare) leg

   Synonym: wāwae

From Proto-Polynesian *wase (“to divide, separate” – compare with Maori wae, Tahitian vae, Tongan vae, Samoan vae), from Proto-Oceanic *wase (compare with Fijian vase)

wae

1. to choose, select, pick out, to sort
2. to separate, to discriminate
3. to draft
4. to cull
5. to be finicky or fussy

• • hoʻowae
  • waena
  • waenakonu
  • waewae

• IPA^(key): /weː/

wae

1. The name of the Latin-script letter w/W.

Although the letter ⟨w⟩ is not used in Irish, it has a name so it can be referred to in mathematical or scientific usage or when spelling words in other languages.

• (Latin-script letter names) litir; á, bé, cé, dé, é, eif, gé, héis, í, jé, cá, eil, eim, ein, ó, pé, cú, ear, eas, té, ú, vé, wae, ex, yé, zae
• Note: The English names are also widely used by Irish speakers.

From Proto-Polynesian *waqe (“leg” – compare with Tahitian vae and Tahitian ʻāvae, Tongan vaʻe), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *waqay from Proto-Austronesian *waqay.

wae

1. (anatomy) leg
2. (anatomy) foot

From Proto-Polynesian *wase (“to divide, separate” – compare with Tahitian vae, Tongan vae, Samoan vae), from Proto-Oceanic *wase (compare with Fijian vase).

wae (passive waea or waetia)

1. (mathematics) to divide
2. to separate
3. to clear away

• • waenga
  • wawae

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “wae”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 554
• “wae” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

From Old English wā, wēa, from Proto-Germanic *wai, whence also Dutch wee, German Weh, weh, Danish ve, Yiddish וויי (vey). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Compare Latin vae, Albanian vaj, French ouais, Ancient Greek οὐαί (ouaí), Persian وای (vây) (Turkish vay, a Persian borrowing), and Armenian վայ (vay).

wae (plural waes)

1. woe

   Wae is me!

   Woe is me!

• awe

From Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

• IPA^(key): /wa/ə
• Hyphenation: wa‧e

wae f

1. sister

   Synonyms: wa, ware, war, wae