different between wasp vs waps

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w?sp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /w?sp/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /wæsp/

Etymology 1

From Middle English wasp, waspe, waps, from Old English wæsp, wæps (“wasp”), from Proto-Germanic *waps?, from Proto-Indo-European *wob?seh? (“wasp”), from *web?- (“weave”) (referring to the insect's woven nests). Compare Dutch wesp, German Wespe, Danish hveps. The metathesis of s and p reflects a process of some generality in Old English, cf. ascian ~ acsian (“to ask”); here, Latin vespa (“wasp”) (also a cognate- cf. Old French wespe) may have helped tilt the scales in favour of -sp.

Noun

wasp (plural wasps)

1. Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
2. (entomology) Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
   1. Any of the members of the family Vespidae.
3. A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: waswasi (reduplicated)

Translations

See also

• bee
• hornet

Etymology 2

Originally an acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

Noun

wasp (plural wasps)

1. Alternative letter-case form of WASP (“White Anglo-Saxon Protestant”)

References

Further reading

• wasp on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• APWs, AWPs, WAPs, WSPA, paws, spaw, swap, waps

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wappes, waps, waspe

Etymology

From Old English wæps, wæsp, from Proto-Germanic *waps?, from Proto-Indo-European *wob?séh?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wasp/

Noun

wasp (plural waspes)

1. wasp

Descendants

• English: wasp
  • Sranan Tongo: waswasi (reduplicated)
• Scots: wasp, wesp

References

• “wasp, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-17.

English

Etymology 1

Noun

waps

1. plural of wap

Verb

waps

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wap

Etymology 2

Noun

waps (plural wapses)

1. (Britain, rural dialect) wasp

Anagrams

• APWs, AWPs, WASP, WSPA, paws, spaw, swap, wasp

Middle English

Noun

waps

1. Alternative form of wasp

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *waps, from Proto-Germanic *waps?.

Noun

waps c (plural wapsen, diminutive wapske)

1. wasp

Further reading

• “waps (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011