different between ast vs wast

English

Verb

ast

1. Pronunciation spelling of asked, simple past tense and past participle of ask
   • 1937, w:John Steinbeck, w:Of Mice and Men, Penguin Books Limited (2000) ?ISBN:

     Curley said, "Well, I didn't mean nothing, Slim. I just ast you."

Anagrams

• ATS, ATs, S. A. T., S.A.T., SAT, STA, Sat, Sat., Sta, Sta., T.A.s, TA's, TAS, TAs, TSA, Tas, Tas., at's, ats, sat, sat., sta, tas

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin hasta (“spear, lance”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ast/

Noun

ast m (plural asts or astos)

1. spit, skewer

Derived terms

• aster
• enastar

Further reading

• “ast” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German ast, from Old High German ast.

Noun

ast m (plural éste)

1. (Sette Comuni) conifer branch

References

• “ast” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ast/, [äs?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ast/, [?st?]

Conjunction

ast

1. but, yet

Synonyms

• (but, yet): at, sed, tamen

References

• ast in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ast in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) astõ

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *astudak.

Verb

ast

1. step

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ast

Noun

ast m

1. branch

Descendants

• Middle High German: ast
  • Cimbrian: ast
  • German: Ast
  • Luxembourgish: Aascht

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ast

Noun

ast m

1. branch

Descendants

• Middle Low German: ast

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English wast; equivalent to was +? -est.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Verb

wast

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of be; wert.
   • 1600, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 2, (a hunting song),

     "Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born ..."

   • 1611, The Bible, King James (Authorised) Version, (first & last usages),

     Genesis 3:11 "And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?"

     Revelation 16:5 "And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus."

   • 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, lines 97-99

     Alas! We two, we two, thou say'st!

     Yea, one wast thou with me

     That once of old.

Noun

wast (plural wasts)

1. Obsolete form of waist.

See also

References

• “wast”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “wast” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

• 'twas, ATWS, AWTs, S.W.A.T., SWAT, Swat, TAWS, TWAs, WSTA, sawt, staw, swat, taws, wats

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st
• IPA^(key): /??st/

Verb

wast

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of wassen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of wassen

Gothic

Romanization

wast

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Middle English

Etymology

From was +? -est; partially replacing earlier were.

Verb

wast

1. (Late Middle English) second-person singular past indicative of been

Descendants

• English: wast (obsolete)

Old French

Noun

wast m (oblique plural waz or watz, nominative singular waz or watz, nominative plural wast)

1. Alternative form of gast

Scots

Etymology

Scots form of English west.

Adverb

wast (comparative mair wast, superlative maist wast)

1. west
2. back, sideways; upstream

Preposition

wast

1. west
2. over, across

   She wis walkin wast the road. - She was walking across the road.

Adjective

wast (comparative mair wast, superlative maist wast)

1. west