wain

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English wayn, from Old English wæġn, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos, from *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”). Doublet of wagon, borrowed from Middle Dutch.

Alternative forms

• wayn (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /weɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn

Homophones: Wayne, wane

Noun

wain (plural wains)

1. (archaic or literary) A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
   • 1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Minas Tirith”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings , New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, book V, page 40:

     Many roads and tracks crossed the green fields, and there was much coming and going: wains moving in lines towards the Great Gate, and others passing out.

   "The Hay Wain" is a famous painting by John Constable.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:wain.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

wain (third-person singular simple present wains, present participle waining, simple past and past participle wained)

1. (rare, transitive) To carry.

Etymology 2

Verb

wain (third-person singular simple present wains, present participle waining, simple past and past participle wained)

1. Misspelling of wane.
   • 2008, "From Mowtown to ‘Growtown’? Detroit’s urban farming catches the eye of the BBC", modelD:

     As the auto industry is waining away, the city is looking for something new.

Etymology 3

From wee one.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiː(ə)n/, /ˈweɪ(ə)n/,

Noun

wain (plural wains)

1. Alternative form of wean

Related terms

• wean

Anagrams

• IAWN, inaw, iwan

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English wine.

Noun

wain

1. wine

Japanese

Romanization

wain

1. Rōmaji transcription of ワイン

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

wain

1. brook; creek; stream

Marshallese

Etymology

Borrowed from English wine, from Middle English wyn, win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom.

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): , (enunciated)
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /wæɰjinʲ/
• Bender phonemes: {wahyin}

Noun

wain

1. wine

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Medebur

Noun

wain

1. woman

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Middle English

Noun

wain

1. Alternative form of wayn (“wagon”)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English wine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wajn/

Noun

wain

1. wine

Descendants

• → Rotokas: uain

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wai̯n/

Noun

wain

1. Soft mutation of gwain.

Mutation