different between wase vs wyse

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

Adjective

wyse (comparative wyser, superlative wysest)

1. Archaic spelling of wise.

Noun

wyse

1. (archaic) plural of way

Anagrams

• weys, wyes, yews

Middle English

Noun

wyse

1. Alternative form of wys

Adjective

wyse

1. inflection of wys:
   1. weak singular
   2. strong/weak plural
2. Alternative form of wys
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, page 37

     …of moost holi lyuynge, and best taught and moost wyse of heuenly wysdom…