waþ
Old English
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *waiþu (“hunt, pasture, food”). Cognate with German Weide (“pasture”) and Icelandic veiði (“hunting”).
Noun
editwāþ f
Declension
editDeclension of waþ (strong ō-stem)
Related terms
edit- wǣþan (“to hunt”)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “wāþ”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Old English lemmas
- Old English nouns
- Old English feminine nouns
- Old English ō-stem nouns