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Translingual
Etymology
Abbreviation of English Walser or German Walserdeutsch.
Symbol
wae
- (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Walser German.
English
Etymology 1
Preposition
wae
- (Scotland) Alternative form of with.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
wae (countable and uncountable, plural waes)
- (Scotland) Alternative form of woe.
Wae is me!
Anagrams
Buginese
Noun
wae
- alternative spelling of waé (“water”)
Buru (Indonesia)
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.
Noun
wae
- (Namrole Bay) water
References
Hawaiian
Etymology 1
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.
Noun
wae
- (rare) leg
- Synonym: wāwae
References
- ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “wae”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 375
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “waqe”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 167-8
Etymology 2
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)
Verb
wae
- to choose, select, pick out, to sort
- to separate, to discriminate
- to draft
- to cull
- to be finicky or fussy
References
- ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “wae”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 375
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “wahe”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2023) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 6: People & society, Canberra: Australian National University, pages 413-6
Derived terms
Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
wae
- The name of the Latin-script letter w/W.
Usage notes
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.
See also
- (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.
Maori
Etymology 1
From Proto-Polynesian *waqe (“leg” – compare with Tahitian vae and Tahitian ʻāvae, Tongan vaʻe), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *waqay from Proto-Austronesian *waqay.
Noun
wae
- (anatomy) leg
- (anatomy) foot
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 584-5
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “waqe”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 167-8
Etymology 2
From Proto-Polynesian *wase (“to divide, separate” – compare with Tahitian vae, Tongan vae, Samoan vae), from Proto-Oceanic *wase (compare with Fijian vase).
Verb
wae (passive waea or waetia)
- (mathematics) to divide
- to separate
- to clear away
References
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “wahe”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2023) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 6: People & society, Canberra: Australian National University, pages 413-6
Derived terms
Further reading
- 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.
Scots
Etymology
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).
Noun
wae (plural waes)
- woe
Anagrams