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woe

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w??/
  • (General American) enPR: w?, IPA(key): /wo?/
  • Rhymes: -??
  • Homophone: whoa (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

woe (countable and uncountable, plural woes)

  1. Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
    Synonyms: grief, sorrow, misery
    • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost
      Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, / Sad instrument of all our woe, she took.
    • 1717, Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard
      Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose / That well-known name awakens all my woes.
    • October 14 2017, Sandeep Moudgal, The Times of India, Rains devastate families, political parties make beeline to apply balm on open wounds
      The Friday night rains which wrecked families in Kurabarahalli saw all the three major political parties making a beeline to express their condolences, listen to their woes and provide compensation in the hope of garnering their goodwill ahead of the 2018 assembly elections.
  2. Calamity, trouble.
  3. A curse; a malediction.
    • Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

woe (comparative more woe, superlative most woe)

  1. (obsolete) Woeful; sorrowful
    • 1303, Robert of Brunne, Handlyng synne
      hys clerk was wo to do þat dede
    • Wo was the knight and sorroufully he syketh.

Interjection

woe

  1. (archaic) An exclamation of grief.

Translations

Anagrams

  • owe

Limburgish

Adverb

woe

  1. where

Alternative forms

  • boe (Maastrichtian)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *wuo, from Proto-Germanic *hw?.

Adverb

woe

  1. (eastern) Alternative form of hoe

Middle English

Pronoun

woe

  1. Alternative form of we (we)

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wae

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

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