wade
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /weɪd/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /wed/
- Rhymes: -eɪd
- Homophones: wayed, weighed, wheyed (all not in Scotland)
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (“to go”). Cognates include German waten (“wade”) and Latin vādō (“go, walk; rush”) (whence English evade, invade, pervade).
Verb
[edit]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.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- So eagerly the fiend […] / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
- 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.
- (intransitive) to progress with difficulty
- to wade through a dull book
- 1697, Virgil, “Aeneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.
- 1701, Charles Davenant, A Discourse on Grants and Resumptions and Essays on the Balance of Power:
- The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.
- (transitive) to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading
- wading swamps and rivers
- (intransitive) To enter recklessly.
- to wade into a fight or a debate
Translations
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Noun
[edit]wade (plural wades)
- An act of wading.
- We had to be careful during our dangerous wade across the river.
- (colloquial) A ford; a place to cross a river.
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[edit]Noun
[edit]wade (uncountable)
- Obsolete form of woad.
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
- Woad or Wade is a very rich Commodity
References
[edit]- “wade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German warden, northern variant of warten, from Old High German wartēn, from Proto-West Germanic *wardēn, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną. Compare Luxembourgish waarden, German warten, English ward, Yiddish וואַרטן (vartn).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]wade (third-person singular present waad, past tense wadet, present participle wadend or wadens, past participle jewaad)
- (Kirchröadsj, intransitive) to wait (for) [with óp (+ accusative)]
Derived terms
[edit]Dutch
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Dutch wade, from Old Dutch *watho, 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 n)
Descendants
[edit]- Afrikaans: waai
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]wade f (plural waden, diminutive waadje n)
Derived terms
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[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]From Middle Dutch wade, reformed from waet through influence of the collective gewade (modern gewaad). Further from Old Dutch *wāt, from Proto-Germanic *wēd-.
Cognate with Middle High German wāt, Old Saxon wād, Old English wǣd, Old Norse váð.
Noun
[edit]wade f (plural waden, diminutive waadje n)
- type of trawl
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[edit]wade
Middle English
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[edit]wade
- Alternative form of waden
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