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wage
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /we?d??/
- Rhymes: -e?d?
Etymology 1
From Middle English wage, from Anglo-Norman wage, from Old Northern French wage, a northern variant of Old French gauge, guage (whence modern French gage), Medieval Latin wadium, from Frankish *wadd? (cognate with Old English wedd), from Proto-Germanic *wadj? (“pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed?- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge”). Akin to Old Norse veðja (“to pledge”), Gothic ???????????????? (wadi), Dutch wedde. Compare also the doublet gage. More at wed.
Noun
wage (plural wages)
- (often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
Synonyms
- earnings, pay, salary
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English wagen (“to pledge”), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wagier, a northern variant of Old French guagier (whence modern French gager), itself either from guage or from a derivative of Frankish *wadd?, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *wadi? from *wadium.
Verb
wage (third-person singular simple present wages, present participle waging, simple past and past participle waged)
- (transitive, obsolete) To wager, bet.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear
- My life I never held but as a pawn
To wage against thine enemies
- My life I never held but as a pawn
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hakluyt to this entry?)
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear
- (transitive, obsolete) To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
- c. 1597 William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
- I fear the power of Percy is too weak
To wage an instant trial with the King.
- I fear the power of Percy is too weak
- c. 1597 William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
- (transitive, obsolete) To employ for wages; to hire.
- abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers
- (transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
- The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other.
- 1709, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe
- pond'ring which of all his Sons was fit
To Reign, and wage immortal War with Wit
- pond'ring which of all his Sons was fit
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
- (transitive) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
- (obsolete, law, Britain) To give security for the performance of.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)
Usage notes
- "Wage" collocates strongly with "war", leading to expressions such as To wage peace, or To wage football implying the inclusion of a large element of conflict in the action.
Derived terms
- wager (agent noun)
Translations
Anagrams
- waeg
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
wage
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of wagen
German
Verb
wage
- inflection of wagen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch w?ga, from Proto-Germanic *w?g?.
Noun
wâge f
- weight
- a certain weight, of which the exact value varied
- weighing scale
- weighhouse
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
- wâgen
Descendants
- Dutch: waag
Further reading
- “waghe (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “wage (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old Northern French wage, from Frankish *wadi, from Proto-Germanic *wadj?. Doublet of gage and wed.
Alternative forms
- wag, vage
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wa?d?(?)/
Noun
wage (plural wages)
- A wage; earnings.
- Money reserved for the payment of salaries.
- An earned positive consequence.
- A promise, pact, or agreement.
Related terms
- wagen
Descendants
- English: wage
- Scots: wage
References
- “w??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.
Etymology 2
Verb
wage
- Alternative form of wagen
Old French
Etymology 1
From Old Norse vágr.
Noun
wage f (oblique plural wages, nominative singular wage, nominative plural wages)
- wave (moving part of a liquid, etc.)
Etymology 2
see gage
Noun
wage m (oblique plural wages, nominative singular wages, nominative plural wage)
- Alternative form of gage
Proto-Norse
Romanization
w?g?
- Romanization of ????
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wae
English
Noun
wae (countable and uncountable, plural waes)
- (Scotland) woe
- Wae is me!
Anagrams
- AEW, Awe, EAW, WEA, awe, eaw
Buginese
Alternative forms
- ???
- uae (Soppeng)
Etymology
From Proto-South Sulawesi *wai, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.
Noun
wae (Lontara spelling ???)
- water (clear liquid H?O)
Buru (Indonesia)
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.
Noun
wae
- (Namrole Bay) water
References
- Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Scots
Etymology
From Old English w?, w?a, from Proto-Germanic *wai, whence also Dutch wee, German Weh, weh, Danish ve, Yiddish ????? (vey). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Compare Latin vae, Albanian vaj, French ouais, Ancient Greek ???? (ouaí), Persian ???? (vây) (Turkish vay, a Persian borrowing), and Armenian ??? (vay).
Noun
wae (plural waes)
- woe
Anagrams
- awe
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