different between wast vs wats

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English wast; equivalent to was +? -est.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Verb

wast

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of be; wert.
   • 1600, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 2, (a hunting song),

     "Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born ..."

   • 1611, The Bible, King James (Authorised) Version, (first & last usages),

     Genesis 3:11 "And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?"

     Revelation 16:5 "And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus."

   • 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, lines 97-99

     Alas! We two, we two, thou say'st!

     Yea, one wast thou with me

     That once of old.

Noun

wast (plural wasts)

1. Obsolete form of waist.

See also

References

• “wast”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “wast” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

• 'twas, ATWS, AWTs, S.W.A.T., SWAT, Swat, TAWS, TWAs, WSTA, sawt, staw, swat, taws, wats

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st
• IPA^(key): /??st/

Verb

wast

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of wassen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of wassen

Gothic

Romanization

wast

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

Middle English

Etymology

From was +? -est; partially replacing earlier were.

Verb

wast

1. (Late Middle English) second-person singular past indicative of been

Descendants

• English: wast (obsolete)

Old French

Noun

wast m (oblique plural waz or watz, nominative singular waz or watz, nominative plural wast)

1. Alternative form of gast

Scots

Etymology

Scots form of English west.

Adverb

wast (comparative mair wast, superlative maist wast)

1. west
2. back, sideways; upstream

Preposition

wast

1. west
2. over, across

   She wis walkin wast the road. - She was walking across the road.

Adjective

wast (comparative mair wast, superlative maist wast)

1. west

English

Noun

wats

1. plural of wat

Anagrams

• 'twas, ATWS, AWTs, S.W.A.T., SWAT, Swat, TAWS, TWAs, WSTA, sawt, staw, swat, taws, was't, wast