wase

See also: waše

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/

• Audio (US):

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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

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

Anagrams

• Awes, EAWs, awes, sawe, waes

Central Franconian

Etymology

See wahße.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋaː.sə/, [ˈʋa.sə]

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

• aawase
• durchwase
• oeswase
• verwase

 

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɑː.se/, [ˈwɑː.ze]

Noun

wāse f

1. soft mud; mire
2. marsh

Declension

Declension of wāse (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	wāse	wāsan
accusative	wāsan	wāsan
genitive	wāsan	wāsena
dative	wāsan	wāsum

Descendants

• Middle English: wose
  • English: ooze

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈwa.se]

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

• wsetstse
• wseṣṣe

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