different between wase vs wame

English

Etymology

From Middle English wase (“torch”), related to Middle Low German and Middle Dutch wase (“bundle of straw, torch”), Danish vase (“wisp of straw, bundle”), Swedish vase (“a sheaf”).

Noun

wase (plural wases)

1. (Britain, dialect) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Awes, EAWs, awes, sawe, waes

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wais?, from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow”). Akin to Old Saxon w?so (“mud, wet ground, mire”), Old Norse veisa (“stagnant pond, stagnant water”), Old English w?s (“moisture; juice, sap”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w??.se/, [?w??.ze]

Noun

w?se f

1. soft mud; mire
2. marsh

Declension

Descendants

• English: ooze

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *wä?së, from Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“poison”) (compare Latin v?rus, Ancient Greek ??? (iós), Sanskrit ??? (vi?a)). Compare Tocharian A wäs.

Noun

wase ?

1. poison

Derived terms

• wsetstse
• wse??e

References

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) , “wase*”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, ?ISBN, page 634

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."