wade

See also Wade

English

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /weɪd/, X-SAMPA: /weId/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

wade (third-person singular simple present wades, present participle wading, simple past and past participle waded)

1. (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.

2. (intransitive) to progress with difficulty
3. (transitive) to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading

   wading swamps and rivers

Translations

to walk through water or something that impedes progress

• Dutch: waden (nl)
• Esperanto: vadi (eo)
• Finnish: kahlata (fi), rämpiä (fi), tarpoa (fi)
• French: patauger (fr)
• German: waten (de)
• Hungarian: átgázol (hu)

• Jèrriais: pataûgi
• Maori: kautū (mi)
• Norwegian: vade (no), vasse (no)
• Scottish Gaelic: grunnaich (gd)
• Spanish: vadear (es)
• Swedish: vada (sv)

to progress with difficulty

• Finnish: rämpiä (fi), tarpoa (fi)

• Russian: пробираться (ru) (probiratʹsja), продираться (ru) (prodiratʹsja)

Noun

wade (plural wades)

1. an act of wading

Translations

act of wading

• Finnish: kahluu (fi)

Related terms

• wade in
• wade into
• wade through

Anagrams

• awed
• Dewa

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Dutch

Etymology 1

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

wade f (plural waden, diminutive waadje)

1. popliteal

Descendants

• Afrikaans: waai

Etymology 2

Noun

wade f (plural waden, diminutive waadje)

1. shroud

Derived terms

• lijkwade

Related terms

• gewaad

Etymology 3

Noun

wade f (plural waden, diminutive waadje)

1. type of trawl

Synonyms

• schrobnet

Hypernyms

• sleepnet

Etymology 4

Verb

wade

1. singular present subjunctive of waden