different between wan vs ghostly

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English wan, wanne (“grey, leaden; pale grey, ashen; blue-black (like a bruise); dim, faint; dark, gloomy”), from Old English ?ann (“dark, dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *wannaz (“dark, swart”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Frisian wann, wonn (“dark”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /w?n/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /wæn/
• Rhymes: -?n

Adjective

wan (comparative wanner, superlative wannest)

1. Pale, sickly-looking.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pallid

   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 24]:

     Big fair wan lovely pale-freckled Kathleen with that buoyant bust gave kindly smiles but mostly she was silent.
2. Dim, faint.
3. Bland, uninterested.

Derived terms

• wanly
• wanness

Translations

Noun

wan (uncountable)

1. The quality of being wan; wanness.

Etymology 2

Eye dialect spelling of one. Sense 2 (“girl or woman”) possibly as a result of the phrase your wan as a counterpart to your man.

Noun

wan (plural wans)

1. Pronunciation spelling of one, representing Ireland English.
2. (Ireland) A girl or woman.

Etymology 3

An inflected form.

Verb

wan

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of win.

References

Anagrams

• NWA, awn, naw

Ainu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??an]

Numeral

wan (Kana spelling ??)

1. ten

Atong (India)

Etymology

From English one.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wan/

Numeral

wan (Bengali script ???)

1. one

Synonyms

• sa
• rongsa
• eek

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 2.

Bislama

Etymology

From English one.

Numeral

wan

1. one

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Latin vannus.

Noun

wan f or m (plural wannen, diminutive wannetje n)

1. winnowing basket

Etymology 2

Verb

wan

1. first-person singular present indicative of wannen
2. imperative of wannen

Fanagalo

Etymology

Borrowed from English one.

Numeral

wan

1. one

Gothic

Romanization

wan

1. Romanization of ????????????

Japanese

Romanization

wan

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Mandarin

Romanization

wan

1. Nonstandard spelling of w?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of wán.
3. Nonstandard spelling of w?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of wàn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Maranao

Verb

wan

1. to fear

References

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wann (“dark”), from Proto-Germanic *wannaz, of uncertain origin.

Adjective

wan

1. wan (pallid, sickly)
2. wan (dim, faint)

Alternative forms

• wane, wanne, won, wonne, wone

Descendants

• English: wan
• Scots: wan

References

• “wan, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

wan (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of wane (“deprivation”)

Etymology 3

Adjective

wan

1. Alternative form of wane

Etymology 4

Noun

wan (uncountable)

1. (Northern) Alternative form of vein (“that which is vain”)

Etymology 5

Pronoun

wan

1. Alternative form of whan

Etymology 6

Noun

wan (plural wanes)

1. (Northern, early) Alternative form of wone (“dwelling”)

Etymology 7

Noun

wan (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of wane (“woeful state”)

Etymology 8

Noun

wan (plural wanes)

1. Alternative form of wone (“choice”)

Etymology 9

Noun

wan (plural wanes)

1. Alternative form of wayn (“wagon”)

Etymology 10

Verb

wan (third-person singular simple present waneth, present participle wanynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle waned)

1. Alternative form of wanen

Etymology 11

Adverb

wan

1. Alternative form of whenne

Conjunction

wan

1. Alternative form of whenne

Etymology 12

Adverb

wan

1. Alternative form of whanne

Conjunction

wan

1. Alternative form of whanne

Etymology 13

Verb

wan

1. Alternative form of wanne: singular simple past of winnen
2. Alternative form of wonnen: plural simple past of winnen

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English want.

Verb

wan

1. want, want to

Noone

Noun

wan (plural boom)

1. child

References

• R. Blench, Beboid Comparative

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian winna, which derives from Proto-Germanic *winnan?.

Verb

wan

1. (Föhr-Amrum Dialect) to win

Conjugation

Okinawan

Romanization

wan

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Old English

Alternative forms

• wann

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?n/

Verb

wan

1. third-person singular of winnan

   (Beowulf ll. 151-2)

Pipil

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /wa?/

Relational

-wan

1. with, in relation to

Declension

Conjunction

wan

1. and, but

Scots

Numeral

wan

1. (West Central) one.

Sranan Tongo

Etymology 1

From English one.

Number

wan

1. one

Etymology 2

Verb

wan

1. Alternative form of wani

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English one.

Noun

wan

1. The number one.

Numeral

wan

1. One. Used with units of measurement and in times: wan aua, wan klok. See also wanpela.

Derived terms

• wanbel
• wanblut
• wande
• wanhaus
• wankain
• wanlain
• wanmak
• wanpes
• wanpela
• wanpilai
• wanpisin
• wanples
• wanskul
• wantaim
• wantok
• wantu
• wanwan
• wanwande
• wanwok

Wutunhua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [w??]

Etymology 1

From Mandarin ? (wán).

Verb

wan

1. to play

Etymology 2

From Mandarin ? (w?n).

Noun

wan

1. bowl

References

• Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun?^[2], University of Helsinki (PhD), ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Middle English gostly, gastlich, from Old English g?stl?? (“spiritual, holy, clerical (not lay), ghastly, ghostly, spectral”), equivalent to ghost +? -ly. Cognate with Scots gostly, gastly, gaistlie (“spiritual, ghastly, terrifying”), West Frisian geastlik (“spiritual, clerical, religious”), Dutch geestelijk (“spiritual, clerical, ecclesiastical”), German geistlich (“spiritual, sacred, religious”), Danish geistlig (“ecclesiastical, clerical”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o?stli/

Adjective

ghostly (comparative ghostlier, superlative ghostliest)

1. Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.

2. Spooky; frightening.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 35):

     Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.

   • 2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, Vintage Books N.Y., p. 134

     His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.

3. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.

   a ghostly confessor

   • Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.

   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     one of the ghostly children of St. Jerome

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ghostly

Translations

See also

• ghastly