wain

See also: Wain and Wäin

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /weɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn

Etymology 1

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From Middle English wayn, from Old English wæġn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos, from *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”). Cognate with West Frisian wein, Dutch wagen, German Wagen, Danish vogn, Norwegian vogn, Swedish vagn. Doublet of wagon, a borrowing from Dutch.

Noun

An oil painting of a hay wain by John Constable

wain (plural wains)

1. (archaic or literary) A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.

   "The Hay Wain" is a famous painting by John Constable.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:wain.

Related terms

• Charles' Wain
• wainwright

Translations

a wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen

• Irish: féan m, vaigín m
• Italian: carro (it) m, carretto (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: пово́зка (ru) f (povózka), теле́га (ru) f (teléga)

Verb

wain (third-person singular simple present wains, present participle waining, simple past and past participle wained)

1. (rare, transitive) To carry.

Etymology 2

Verb

wain (third-person singular simple present wains, present participle waining, simple past and past participle wained)

1. Misspelling of wane.

   As the auto industry is waining away, the city is looking for something new. [1]

Anagrams

• IAWN, inaw, iwan

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Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English wine.

Noun

wain

1. wine

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Japanese

Romanization

wain

1. Rōmaji transcription of ワイン

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Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

wain

1. brook; creek; stream

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Marshallese

Etymology

Borrowed from English wine, from Middle English wyn, win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom.

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [wɑːinʲ], (enunciated) [wɑ inʲ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /wæɰjinʲ/
• Bender phonemes: {wahyin}

Noun

wain

1. wine

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

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Medebur

Noun

wain

1. woman

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

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Middle English

Noun

wain

1. Alternative form of wayn (“wagon”)

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English wine.

Noun

wain

1. wine

Descendants

• → Rotokas: uain

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wai̯n/

Noun

wain

1. Soft mutation of gwain.