wange

See also: Wange and wǎngē

Middle English

Noun

wange (plural wanges)

1. cheek; jaw
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, 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:

     Our manciple, I hope he wil be deed,
     Swa werkes ay the wanges in his heed.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Old English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɑn.ɡe/, [ˈwɑŋ.ɡe]

Noun

wange n

1. cheek, jaw

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

Declension of wange (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	wange	wangan
accusative	wange	wangan
genitive	wangan	wangena
dative	wangan	wangum

Declension of wange

Case	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

1. dative singular of wang

Ternate

Etymology

Cognate with Sahu wangere (“day”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈwa.ŋe]

Noun

wange

1. day

   mawange ― the other day

2. 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