different between spaw vs shaw

English

Noun

spaw (plural spaws)

1. Archaic form of spa.
   • 1728, Of Bathing in the Hot-baths, at Bathe

     The Aix-la-Chapelle Waters are drunk at this Day, more as Purgers, and Preparatives for the Spaw, […]

Anagrams

• APWs, AWPs, WAPs, WASP, WSPA, paws, swap, waps, wasp

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spaf/

Noun

spaw m inan

1. weld (joint made by welding)

Declension

Related terms

• (nouns) spawacz, spawaczka, spawarka
• (verb) spawa?

Further reading

• spaw in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Alternative forms

• shawe (13th-17th centuries)

Etymology

From Old English s?eaga, scaga. Cognate with Old Norse skógr (“forest, wood”), whence Danish skov (“forest”). Doublet of scaw.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

shaw (plural shaws)

1. (dated, dialectal) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
   • 1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, V, lines 1-2

     The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws, / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,

2. (Scotland) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon, 2006 (A Scots Quair), p.35:

     Up here the hills were brave with the beauty and the heat of it, but the hayfield was still all a crackling dryness and in the potato park beyond the biggings the shaws drooped red and rusty already.

Translations

Anagrams

• -wash, Haws, WASH, Wahs, Wash, Wash., haws, shwa, wahs, wash

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English schewen, schawen, scheawen, from Old English sc?awian, from Proto-Germanic *skaww?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh?-.

Noun

shaw (plural shaws)

1. A show.

Verb

shaw (third-person singular present shaws, present participle shawin, past shawt, past participle shawt)

1. To show.