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]
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.
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Central Franconian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See wahße.
Pronunciation[edit]
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
- May rain
- A Kerkradish children's song:
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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]
Noun[edit]
wāse f
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Ternate[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
wase
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
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
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