different between wade vs wadd

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /we?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d
• Homophones: wayed, weighed, wheyed

Etymology 1

From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadan?, from Proto-Indo-European *weh?d?- (“to go”). Cognates include German waten (“wade”) and Latin v?d? (“go, walk; rush”) (whence English evade, invade, pervade).

Verb

wade (third-person singular simple present wades, present participle wading, simple past and past participle waded)

1. (intransitive) to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII

     After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles. They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two hours and then returned to the cliff.

2. (intransitive) to progress with difficulty

   • And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.
3. (transitive) to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading

4. (intransitive) To enter recklessly.

Translations

Noun

wade (plural wades)

1. An act of wading.

2. (colloquial) A ford; a place to cross a river.

Translations

Related terms

• wade in
• wade through

Etymology 2

Noun

wade (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of woad.

References

• wade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Dawe, Dewa, awed

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?.d?/
• Hyphenation: wa?De
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wade, from Old Dutch *watho, from Proto-Germanic *waþwô.

Cognate with German Wade (“calf (of leg)”), Swedish vad (“calf (of leg)”) and Afrikaans waai (“popliteal”).

Noun

wade f (plural waden, diminutive waadje n)

1. popliteus

Descendants

• Afrikaans: waai

Etymology 2

Noun

wade f (plural waden, diminutive waadje n)

1. shroud

Derived terms

• lijkwade

Related terms

• gewaad

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch wade, reformed from waet through influence of the collective gewade (modern gewaad). Further from Old Dutch *w?t, from Proto-Germanic *w?d-.

Cognate with Middle High German w?t, Old Saxon w?d, Old English w?d, Old Norse váð.

Noun

wade f (plural waden, diminutive waadje n)

1. type of trawl

Synonyms

• schrobnet

Hypernyms

• sleepnet

Etymology 4

Verb

wade

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of waden

Middle English

Verb

wade

1. Alternative form of waden

English

Noun

wadd (countable and uncountable, plural wadds)

1. (mineralogy) Alternative form of wad

Welsh

Noun

wadd

1. Soft mutation of gwadd.

Mutation