waþ

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *waiþu (“hunt, pasture, food”). Cognate with German Weide (“pasture”) and Icelandic veiði (“hunting”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɑːθ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːθ

Noun

wāþ f

1. wandering
2. hunting, chase

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	wāþ	wāþa, wāþe
accusative	wāþe	wāþa, wāþe
genitive	wāþe	wāþa
dative	wāþe	wāþum

Related terms

• wǣþan (“to hunt”)

Descendants

• Middle English: wathe, waith, wayth

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “wāþ”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.