different between waw vs wae

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English wawen, wa?ien, from Old English wagian (“to move, shake, swing, totter”), from Proto-Germanic *wag?n? (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *we??- (“to drag, carry”). Cognate with German wagen (“to venture, dare, risk”), Dutch wagen (“to venture, dare, also to move, stir”), Swedish våga (“to dare”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: war

Verb

waw (third-person singular simple present waws, present participle wawing, simple past and past participle wawed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To stir; move; wave.

Etymology 2

From Middle English wawe, wa?e, waghe, from Old English w?g (“motion, water, wave, billow, flood, sea”), from Proto-West Germanic *w?g, from Proto-Germanic *w?gaz (“wave, storm”), from Proto-Indo-European *we??- (“to drag, carry”).

Cognate with North Frisian weage (“water, wave”), German Wag, Woge (“wave”), French vague (“wave”), Swedish våg (“wave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: war

Alternative forms

• wawe

Noun

waw (plural waws)

1. (obsolete, water) A wave.

Etymology 3

From Middle English wawe, wowe, waugh, wough, from Old English w?h, w?g (“a wall, partition”), from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, twist”). Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch, Saterland Frisian Wooge (“indoor wall, partition”).

Alternative forms

• wo (Northern England, Derbyshire)
• waugh (Scotland)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: war

Noun

waw (plural waws)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) A wall.
   • 1678, John Ray, A Collection of English Proverbs, 75:

     She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and a waw a wall.

   • 1886, Thomas Farrall, Betty Wilson's Cummerland Teals, 41:

     T'ootside waws was whitewesh't.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:wo.

Etymology 4

From Arabic ????? (w?w).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??w/, /wa?/

Noun

waw (plural waws)

1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: ?.
2. Alternative spelling of vav
   • 2006, George Athas, The Tel Dan Inscription: A Reappraisal and a New Introduction, page 147:

     Rather, the waws of both fragments are demonstrably similar. What Cryer and Becking fail to note is that the style of waw used in Fragment B is also used in Fragment A.

Translations

Anagrams

• aww

Ibatan

Etymology

Cognates with Yami awaw.

Adjective

waw

1. thirsty

Ivatan

Etymology

Cognates with Yami awaw.

Adjective

waw

1. thirsty

Mapudungun

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

waw (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. A valley.

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Middle English

Noun

waw

1. Alternative form of wawe

Portuguese

Noun

waw m (plural waws)

1. Alternative spelling of uau

Scots

Etymology

From Old English wagian (“wave, undulate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??/

Noun

waw (plural waws)

1. (water) wave

English

Noun

wae (countable and uncountable, plural waes)

1. (Scotland) woe

   Wae is me!

Anagrams

• AEW, Awe, EAW, WEA, awe, eaw

Buginese

Alternative forms

• ???
• uae (Soppeng)

Etymology

From Proto-South Sulawesi *wai, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Noun

wae (Lontara spelling ???)

1. water (clear liquid H?O)

Buru (Indonesia)

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Noun

wae

1. (Namrole Bay) water

References

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Scots

Etymology

From Old English w?, w?a, from Proto-Germanic *wai, whence also Dutch wee, German Weh, weh, Danish ve, Yiddish ????? (vey). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Compare Latin vae, Albanian vaj, French ouais, Ancient Greek ???? (ouaí), Persian ???? (vây) (Turkish vay, a Persian borrowing), and Armenian ??? (vay).

Noun

wae (plural waes)

1. woe

Anagrams

• awe