wase

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”).

• IPA^(key): /weɪs/

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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.

• “wase”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Awes, EAWs, awes, sawe, waes

See wahße.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋaː.sə/,

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

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɑː.se/,

wāse f

1. soft mud; mire
2. marsh

• Middle English: wose
  • English: ooze

• IPA^(key):

wase

1. an unproductive coconut tree

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

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

wase m

1. poison

• wsetstse
• wseṣṣe

• 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