wase
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editwase (plural wases)
- (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
edit- “wase”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editCentral Franconian
editEtymology
editSee wahße.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editwase (third-person singular present weëst or waast, past tense woos or waset, past participle jewase, present participle wasend or wasens)
- (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
- May rain
- A Kerkradish children's song:
Derived terms
editOld English
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editwāse f
Declension
editDescendants
editTernate
editPronunciation
editNoun
editwase
References
edit- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
Tocharian B
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Tocharian *wä́së, from Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“poison”) (compare Latin vīrus, Ancient Greek ἰός (iós), Sanskrit विष (viṣa)). Compare Tocharian A wäs.
Noun
editwase m
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- 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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