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wake
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /we?k/
- Homophone: Wake
- Rhymes: -e?k
Etymology 1
A merger of two verbs of similar form and meaning:
- Middle English waken, Old English wacan, from Proto-Germanic *wakan?.
- Middle English wakien, Old English wacian, from Proto-West Germanic *wak?n, from Proto-Germanic *wak?n?.
Verb
wake (third-person singular simple present wakes, present participle waking, simple past woke or waked, past participle woken or waked)
- (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
- (transitive, figuratively) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
- 1880, John Richard Green, History of the English People
- Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.
- 1880, John Richard Green, History of the English People
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
- To lay out a body prior to burial in order to allow family and friends to pay their last respects.
- Section 14(1)(a), Infectious Diseases Act (Cap. 137, R. Ed. 2003)
- Where any person has died whilst being, or suspected of being, a case or carrier or contact of an infectious disease, the Director may by order prohibit the conduct of a wake over the body of that person or impose such conditions as he thinks fit on the conduct of such wake...
- Section 14(1)(a), Infectious Diseases Act (Cap. 137, R. Ed. 2003)
- To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
- To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
- , Book II, Chapter I
- I cannot think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
- , Book II, Chapter I
- (obsolete) To be alert; to keep watch
- (obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
Derived terms
- bewake
- wake up and smell the ashes
- wake up and smell the coffee
- wake up and smell the roses
Related terms
- wacken
Translations
Noun
wake (plural wakes)
- (obsolete, poetic) The act of waking, or state of being awake.
- 1677, John Dryden, All for Love
- Singing her flatteries to my morning wake.
- 1677, John Dryden, All for Love
- The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
- The warlike wakes continued all the night, / And funeral games played at new returning light.
Derived terms
- wakeful
- wakeless
- wakesome
Etymology 2
From Old English wacu, from Proto-Germanic *wak?.
Noun
wake (plural wakes)
- A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party and/or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
- (historical, Church of England) A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
- 1523–1525, Jean Froissart, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles
- Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England.
- And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer.
- 1523–1525, Jean Froissart, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles
- A number of vultures assembled together.
Synonyms
- death watch
Translations
See also
- arval, arvel
- shiva, shivah
Etymology 3
Probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch wake, from or akin to Old Norse v?k (“a hole in the ice”) ( > Danish våge, Icelandic vök), from Proto-Germanic *wakw? (“wetness”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg?- (“moist, wet”).
Noun
wake (plural wakes)
- The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
- The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
- (figuratively) The area behind something, typically a rapidly moving object.
- 1826, Thomas De Quincey, Lessing (published in Blackwood's Magazine)
- This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.
- 1857-1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians
- Several humbler persons […] formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels.
- 1826, Thomas De Quincey, Lessing (published in Blackwood's Magazine)
Translations
Derived terms
- wakeboarding
- wakeskater
- wakeskating
- wake turbulence
- wake vortex
See also
- in the wake of
- wakes
Related terms
- wait
- watch
Anagrams
- weak, weka
Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *waka, from Proto-Germanic *wak?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a?.k?/
Noun
wake f (plural waken)
- A wake (a gathering to remember a dead person).
Verb
wake
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of waken
Japanese
Romanization
wake
- R?maji transcription of ??
Middle English
Adjective
wake
- Alternative form of woke
Swahili
Noun
wake
- plural of mke
Adjective
wake
- M class inflected form of -ake.
- U class inflected form of -ake.
- Wa class inflected form of -ake.
Torres Strait Creole
Etymology
From Meriam wakey.
Noun
wake
- (eastern dialect) thigh, upper leg
Synonyms
- dokap (western dialect)
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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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