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Middle English
Noun
wange (plural wanges)
- cheek; jaw
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
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Old English
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *wangô (“cheek”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenǵ- (“neck, cheek”). More at wang.
Pronunciation
Noun
wange n
- cheek, jaw
Usage notes
Ēage, ēare, and wange are the only three neuter nouns regularly declined as weak nouns in Old English. However, unlike the former two, wange sometimes displays strong forms, either of the masculine or the feminine strong declension. Both possible declensions are given below.
Declension
Declension of wange (weak)
Descendants
References
- Alan Campbell (1962) chapter XI, in Old English Grammar, Oxford, Clarendon Press, B, page 249, §618
Etymology 2
Noun
wange
- dative singular of wang
Ternate
Etymology
Cognate with Sahu wangere (“day”).
Pronunciation
Noun
wange
- day
- mawange ― the other day
- the sun
- Synonym: wange malako (literally “eye of the day”)
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh