wae

See also: WAE, waé, and wa.é

English

Noun

wae (countable and uncountable, plural waes)

1. (Scotland) woe

   Wae is me!

Anagrams

• Awe, EAW, awe, eaw

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Buginese

wae

Alternative forms

• ᨓᨕᨙ
• uae (Soppeng)

Etymology

From Proto-South Sulawesi *wai, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

Noun

wae (Lontara spelling ᨓᨕᨙ)

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

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Buru (Indonesia)

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.

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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!

Anagrams

• awe