different between dwaal vs dwale

English

Etymology

From Afrikaans dwaal (“a dreamy, dazed, absent-minded, or befuddled state”).

Noun

dwaal (plural dwaals)

1. (South Africa, informal) A dreamy, dazed, absent-minded, or befuddled state

   sitting here in a dwaal

Related terms

• dwale
• dwual

References

• OED, dwaal
• thefreedictionary.com, dwaal

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch dwalen, from Middle Dutch dwalen, from Old Dutch *dwalon, from Proto-Germanic *dwal?n?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dv??l/

Verb

dwaal (present dwaal, present participle dwalende, past participle gedwaal)

1. (intransitive) to stray, to wander

Noun

dwaal (plural dwale)

1. dwaal, an absent-minded state

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?l

Verb

dwaal

1. first-person singular present indicative of dwalen to stray, wander
2. imperative of dwalen

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dwe?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English dwale (“dazed, stupor; deception, trickery; delusion; error, wrong-doing, evil”), from Old English dwala,dwola (“error, heresy; doubt; madman, deceiver, heretic”) and possibly of Scandinavian origin, compare Danish dvale ‘sleep, stupor’.

Noun

dwale (countable and uncountable, plural dwales)

1. (obsolete) a sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna
   • Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale

     To bedde goþ Aleyne and also John; / Þer nas na moore – hem nedede no dwale.

2. belladonna itself, deadly nightshade; or some other soporific plant
   • 1842, J. van Voorst, The Phytologist, p. 595.

     Beneath and around the clumps of ragged moss-grown elder and hoary stunted whitethorn (...) rise thickets of tall nettles and rank hemlock, concealing the deadly but alluring dwale —

3. error, delusion
4. (heraldry) a sable or black color.
5. (obsolete) A heretic.

Etymology 2

From Middle English dwalen, from Old English dwalian, from Proto-Germanic *dwal?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?welH- (“to make turbid”).

Verb

dwale (third-person singular simple present dwales, present participle dwaling, simple past and past participle dwaled)

1. To mutter deliriously

Related terms

• dwaal — a dreamy, dazed, or absent-minded state
• dwual — to be delirious

References

• dwale in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Wadle, Weald, lawed, waled, weald

Dutch

Verb

dwale

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dwalen

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *thw?la, *tw?la, *thweila, from Proto-West Germanic *þwahilu.

Noun

dwâle f or m

1. cloth
2. towel

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• dwêle
• *dweile

Descendants

• Dutch: dwaal, dweil
• Limburgish: dweiel

Further reading

• “dwale”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “dwale (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I