wase

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English

Etymology

From Middle English wase (“torch”), related to Middle Low German and Middle Dutch wase (“bundle of straw, torch”), Danish vase (“wisp of straw, bundle”), Swedish vase (“a sheaf”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /weɪs/
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Noun

wase (plural wases)

  1. (UK, dialect) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.
    • 1565, Thomas Harding, A Confutation of a Booke Intituled An Apologie of the Churche of England:
      a waze of strawe in his hande.

References

Anagrams

Central Franconian

Etymology

See wahße.

Pronunciation

Verb

wase (third-person singular present weëst or waast, past tense woos or waset, past participle jewase, present participle wasend or wasens)

  1. (Limburgan Ripuarian) Alternative spelling of wahße
    • A Kerkradish children's song:
      Maireën
      drupereën
      val óp miech
      da waas iech
      May rain
      drops of rain
      fall on me
      then I'll grow

Derived terms

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *waisā, from Proto-Germanic *waisǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow”). Akin to Old Saxon wāso (“mud, wet ground, mire”), Old Norse veisa (“stagnant pond, stagnant water”), Old English wōs (“moisture; juice, sap”).

Pronunciation

Noun

wāse f

  1. soft mud; mire
  2. marsh

Declension

Declension of wase (weak)
Case Singular Plural
nominative wāse wāsan
accusative wāsan wāsan
genitive wāsan wāsena
dative wāsan wāsum

Descendants

  • Middle English: wose

Ternate

Pronunciation

Noun

wase

  1. an unproductive coconut tree

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *wä́së, from Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“poison”) (compare Latin vīrus, Ancient Greek ἰός (iós), Sanskrit विष (viṣa)). Compare Tocharian A wäs.

Noun

wase m

  1. poison

Derived terms

References

  • Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “wase*”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 634
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