adaw

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ daw (“to wake up; to daunt”). Compare Middle English adawen.

Verb

adaw (third-person singular simple present adaws, present participle adawing, simple past and past participle adawed)

1. (obsolete) To subdue, daunt.
   • Edmund Spenser

     He, comming home at undertime, there found / The fayrest creature, that he ever saw, / Sitting beside his mother on the ground; / The sight whereof did greatly him adaw.

2. (obsolete) To awaken, arouse.
   • Geoffrey Chaucer

     A man that waketh of his sleep / He may not suddenly well taken keep / Upon a thing, ne seen it parfitly / Till that he be adawed verily.

See also

• bedaw

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “adaw”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Awad, WADA, Wada, da'wa, dawa

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Noun

adaw

1. baby monkey

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Middle Welsh

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈadau̯/

Verb

adaw

1. to leave
2. to allow
3. to let go

Conjugation

• first-person singular present: adawaf, eidawaf
• third-person singular preterite: edewis

Descendants

• Welsh: adaw, ado

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• adav

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaðau̯/

Verb

aðaw

1. to promise

Descendants

• Welsh: addo

Mutation

Middle Welsh mutation
Radical	Soft	Nasal	H-prothesis
adaw	unchanged	unchanged	hadaw
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle Welsh mutation
Radical	Soft	Nasal	H-prothesis
aðaw	unchanged	unchanged	haðaw
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.