wase

English edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

IPA^(key): /weɪs/
Audio (US): (file)

Noun edit

wase (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 edit

Awes, EAWs, awes, sawe, waes

Central Franconian edit

Etymology edit

See wahße.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈʋaː.sə/, [ˈʋa.sə]

Verb edit

wase (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

Derived terms edit

Old English edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

IPA^(key): /ˈwɑː.se/, [ˈwɑː.ze]

Noun edit

wāse f

soft mud; mire
marsh

Declension edit

Declension of wase (weak)

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

Descendants edit

Middle English: wose
- English: ooze

Ternate edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈwa.se]

Noun edit

wase

an unproductive coconut tree

References edit

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

Tocharian B edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

wase m

poison

Derived terms edit

References 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