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English

Etymology

Northern form of womb, from Old English wamb.

Noun

wame (plural wames)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) The belly.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 26:

     everybody knows what they are, the Gourdon fishers, they'd wring silver out of a corpse's wame and call stinking haddocks perfume fishes and sell them at a shilling a pair.

2. (Scotland, Northern England) The womb.

Anagrams

• meaw

Middle English

Noun

wame

1. Alternative form of wombe

Scots

Alternative forms

• wam

Etymology

From Middle English wambe, wame, wamb, forms of womb (“belly, womb”), from Old English wamb (“belly”).

Noun

wame (plural wames)

1. belly
2. womb
3. (figuratively) heart, mind
   • 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy (in English and Scots):

     "why, Andrew, you know all the secrets of this family.". "If I ken them, I can keep them," said Andrew; "they winna work in my wame like harm in a barrel, I'se warrant ye."

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ware, war, from Old English wær, from Proto-West Germanic *war, from Proto-Germanic *waraz.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??(?)/
• (General American) enPR: w?r, IPA^(key): /w??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: wear, where (wine-whine merger)

Adjective

ware (comparative more ware, superlative most ware)

1. (poetic) Aware.

Usage notes

Replaced by intensified form aware.

Derived terms

• aware
• beware
• unware

Noun

ware (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English ware, from Old English waru, from Proto-West Germanic *waru, from Proto-Germanic *war? (“attention”) as in beware, in the sense of “an object of care, a valuable”, from Proto-Indo-European *wer-, whence also ward. Cognate with Dutch waar (“goods offered for sale or use”) and Swedish vara, with the same meaning.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??(?)/
• (General American) enPR: w?r, IPA^(key): /w??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: wear, where (wine-whine merger)

Noun

ware (usually uncountable, plural wares)

1. (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
2. (in the plural) See wares.
3. (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.

   damascene ware, tole ware

4. (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
5. (Ireland) Crockery.

Derived terms

• Biddery ware
• Corded Ware culture
• -ware

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English waren (“to be ware, be on guard, be mindful, protect, guard”), from Old English warian, from Proto-Germanic *war?n?. Cognate with Saterland Frisian woarje (“to guard”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??(?)/
• (General American) enPR: w?r, IPA^(key): /w??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: wear, where (wine-whine merger)

Verb

ware (third-person singular simple present wares, present participle waring, simple past and past participle wared)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.
   • 1450, Palladius on Husbondrie?

     Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.

   • c. 1450, Who Ðat Liste Loke?

     Ware avoutrer untrue; Such love was never good ne may be true.

   • c. 1470, The Macro Plays?

     ‘Ware that!’ quoth Ser Wyly.

   • 1987, Kangs in Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

     Ware cleaners.

2. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.

Translations

Adjective

ware (comparative more ware, superlative most ware)

1. (obsolete) Wary; cautious.

   • Of whom be thou ware also.

   • March 22 1549, Hugh Latimer, third sermon preached before King Edward VI

     He is ware enough; he is wily and circumspect for stirring up any sedition.

Derived terms

• wary

Related terms

• ward

Etymology 4

From Middle English ware, wore (as in sewor (“seaweed”), from Old English s?w?r (“seaweed”)), from Old English w?r (“seaweed”). Cognate with Dutch wier (“seaweed”), Middle Dutch wier (“seaweed”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ware

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Seaweed.

Derived terms

• ware goose

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

Verb

ware (third-person singular simple present wares, present participle waring, simple past and past participle wared)

1. (nautical) To wear, or veer.

Etymology 6

Verb

ware

1. Old eye dialect spelling of were.
   • c. 1815, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise

     A larg concors ware standing round

References

Anagrams

• -wear, Awre, Wear, arew, wear

Afrikaans

Verb

ware

1. imperfect subjunctive of wees

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?r?/

Adjective

ware

1. Inflected form of waar

Verb

ware

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of zijn
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of waren

Hausa

Verb

w?r? (grade 4)

1. to separate things, to set things aside
2. to secede

Japanese

Romanization

ware

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Maori

Adjective

ware

1. ignorant

Noun

ware

1. saliva

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *wara, from Proto-Germanic *war?.

Noun

w?re f

1. merchandise, product

Inflection

Descendants

• Dutch: waar
• Limburgish: waar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

wâre

1. first/third-person singular past subjunctive of w?sen

Further reading

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French vair.

Noun

ware

1. Alternative form of veir

Etymology 2

From Old English werre, wyrre.

Noun

ware

1. Alternative form of werre

Pennsylvania German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?r?/

Etymology

Compare German werden.

Verb

ware

1. to become

Conjugation

Scots

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wer], [war], [vo?r]

Noun

ware (plural wares)

1. spring, springtime
2. cold weather in springtime

Synonyms

• spring

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [we?r]

Noun

ware (plural wares)

1. a type of seaweed

Derived terms

• warebrak