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wae

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See also: WAE, waé, wa.é, and waə́

Translingual

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Etymology

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Abbreviation of English Walser or German Walserdeutsch.

Symbol

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wae

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Walser German.

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English

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Etymology 1

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Preposition

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wae

  1. (Scotland) Alternative form of with.
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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wae (countable and uncountable, plural waes)

  1. (Scotland) Alternative form of woe.
    Wae is me!

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Buginese

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Noun

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wae

  1. alternative spelling of waé (“water”)

Buru (Indonesia)

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

Noun

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wae

  1. (Namrole Bay) water

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Hawaiian

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Polynesian *waqe (“leg” – compare with Māori wae, Tahitian vae and Tahitian ʻāvae, Tongan vaʻe).[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *waqay from Proto-Austronesian *waqay.[2][3]

Noun

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wae

  1. (rare) leg
    Synonym: wāwae

References

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  1. ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “wae”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 375
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “waqe”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D.; Pawley, Andrew; Osmond, Meredith (2016), The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 167-8

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Polynesian *wase (“to divide, separate” – compare with Māori wae, Tahitian vae, Tongan vae, Samoan vae),[1] from Proto-Oceanic *wase (compare with Fijian vase)[2][3]

Verb

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wae

  1. to choose, select, pick out, to sort
  2. to separate, to discriminate
  3. to draft
  4. to cull
  5. to be finicky or fussy

References

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  1. ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “wae”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 375
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “wahe”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D.; Pawley, Andrew; Osmond, Meredith (2023), The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 6: People & society, Canberra: Australian National University, pages 413-6

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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wae

  1. The name of the Latin script letter w/W.

Usage notes

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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.

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Māori

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Polynesian *waqe (“leg” – compare with Tahitian vae and Tahitian ʻāvae, Tongan vaʻe),[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *waqay from Proto-Austronesian *waqay.[2][3]

Noun

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wae

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

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References

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891), Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 584-5
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “waqe”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D.; Pawley, Andrew; Osmond, Meredith (2016), The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 167-8

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Polynesian *wase (“to divide, separate” – compare with Tahitian vae, Tongan vae, Samoan vae), from Proto-Oceanic *wase (compare with Fijian vase).[1][2]

Verb

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wae (passive waea or waetia)

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

References

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  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “wahe”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  2. ^ Ross, Malcolm D.; Pawley, Andrew; Osmond, Meredith (2023), The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 6: People & society, Canberra: Australian National University, pages 413-6

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Further reading

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  • Williams, Herbert William (1917), “wae”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 554
  • “wae” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Scots

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Etymology

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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

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wae (plural waes)

  1. woe
    Wae is me!
    Woe is me!

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Zazaki

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /wa.ə/
  • Rhymes: -aə
  • Hyphenation: wa‧e

Noun

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wae f

  1. sister
    Synonyms: wa, ware, war, wae
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