wade
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Etymology [edit]
Old English wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wadh- "to go". Cognates include Latin vadere "go, walk; rush" (whence English invade, evade).
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- Rhymes: -eɪd
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wade (third-person singular simple present wades, present participle wading, simple past and past participle waded)
- (intransitive) to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII
- After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles. They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two hours and then returned to the cliff.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII
- (intransitive) to progress with difficulty
- (transitive) to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading
- wading swamps and rivers
Translations [edit]
to walk through water or something that impedes progress
to progress with difficulty
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Noun [edit]
wade (plural wades)
- an act of wading
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Dutch [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Middle Dutch wade, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waþwô. Cognate with German Wade (“calf (of leg)”), Swedish vad (“calf (of leg)”) and Afrikaans waai (“popliteal”).
Noun [edit]
wade f (plural waden, diminutive waadje)
Descendants [edit]
- Afrikaans: waai
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wade f (plural waden, diminutive waadje)
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Noun [edit]
wade f (plural waden, diminutive waadje)
- type of trawl
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