wange

See also: Wange and wǎngē

Middle English

Noun

wange (plural wanges)

cheek; jaw
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story via the 'title' parameter)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
  Oure manciple, I hope he wil be deed, / Swa werkes ay the wanges in his heed
  I expect our manciple will [soon] be dead, / So continually ache the teeth in his head
  The use of the verb "hope" in the sense of "expect" or "predict" was a feature of the Northern English dialect of Chaucer's day; Chaucer uses it here for comic effect.

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *wangā, from Proto-Germanic *wangô (“cheek”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenǵ- (“neck, cheek”). More at English wang.

Alternative forms

wænge, wenge

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwɑn.ɡe/, [ˈwɑŋ.ɡe]

Noun

wange n

cheek, jaw
Synonyms: ċēace, hlēor, wang

Usage notes

Ēage, ēare, and wange are the only three neuter nouns regularly declined as weak nouns in Old English. However, unlike the former two, wange sometimes displays strong forms, either of the masculine or the feminine strong declension. Both possible declensions are given below.

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	wange	wangan
accusative	wange	wangan
genitive	wangan	wangena
dative	wangan	wangum

	singular	plural
nominative	wange	wangas, wonge, wonga
accusative	wange	wangas, wonge, wonga
genitive	wonges	wonga
dative	wange	wangum

Descendants

Middle English: wange
- English: wang

References

Alan Campbell (1962), chapter XI, in Old English Grammar‎^[1], Oxford, Clarendon Press, B, page 249, §618

Etymology 2

Noun

wange m

dative singular of wang

Ternate

Etymology

Cognate with Sahu wangere (“day”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈwa.ŋe]

Noun

wange

day
mawange ― the other day
the sun
Synonym: wange malako (literally “eye of the day”)

References

Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh