wawe

English

Etymology

From Middle English wawe, waghe. Not the same word as wave.

Noun

wawe (plural wawes)

1. Alternative form of waw (“wave”)

References

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

From inflected forms in wāg- of Old English wǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *wāg, from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz.

Alternative forms

• waghe, waue, waȝe, wau, waw

Pronunciation

• (Early Middle English) IPA^(key): /waɣ/
• IPA^(key): /wau̯/

Noun

wawe (plural wawes)

2. A wave (moving zone of water or other flowing substance; undulation)
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knyghtes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 1099-1100:

     And fro the navele doun al covered was / With wawes grene, and brighte as any glas.

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3. Any sort of flowing or spurting motion.
4. (usually in the plural) The ocean; a large body of water.
5. (figurative) A force of change or disruption.

Related terms

• wawy

Descendants

• English: waw, wawe (obsolete)
• Scots: waw

References

• “wau(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-11.

Etymology 2

Adjective

wawe

1. Alternative form of wawy

Etymology 3

Verb

wawe

1. Alternative form of wawen

Etymology 4

From Old English wāwa.

Noun

wawe

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of wowe

Swahili

Verb

wawe

1. inflection of -wa:
   1. third-person plural subjunctive affirmative
   2. m-wa class subject inflected plural subjunctive affirmative

Tunjung

Noun

wawe

1. woman

References

• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary