wae

See also: WAE, waé, and wa.é

English

Noun

wae (countable and uncountable, plural waes)

1. (Scotland) woe

   Wae is me!

See also

• mad wae it

 

Anagrams

• AEW, Awe, EAW, WEA, awe, eaw

Buginese

Noun

wae

1. Alternative spelling of waé (“water”)

Buru (Indonesia)

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

Noun

wae

1. (Namrole Bay) water

References

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /weː/

Noun

wae

1. The name of the Latin-script letter w.

Usage notes

Although the letter ⟨w⟩ is not used in Irish, it has a name so it can be referred to in mathematical or scientific usage or when spelling words in other languages.

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) litir; á, bé, cé, dé, é, eif, gé, héis, í, jé, cá, eil, eim, ein, ó, pé, cú, ear, eas, té, ú, vé, wae, ex, yé, zae
• Note: The English names are also widely used by Irish speakers.

Maori

Noun

wae

1. (anatomy) leg
2. (anatomy) foot

Verb

wae (passive waea or waetia)

1. (mathematics) to divide
2. to separate
3. to clear away

Scots

Etymology

From Old English wā, wēa, from Proto-Germanic *wai, whence also Dutch wee, German Weh, weh, Danish ve, Yiddish וויי (vey). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Compare Latin vae, Albanian vaj, French ouais, Ancient Greek οὐαί (ouaí), Persian وای (vây) (Turkish vay, a Persian borrowing), and Armenian վայ (vay).

Noun

wae (plural waes)

1. woe

   Wae is me!

   Woe is me!

Anagrams

• awe