different between wrength vs moai

English

Etymology

From Middle English wrength, which may derive from an unattested Old English *wrengþu (“unevenness, wrongness, inequity”) (from wrang (“wrong”)) or have been formed in Middle English from wrong on analogy with strong : strength and long : length (see -th); modern uses may be similarly analogical nonces.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?ngth, IPA^(key): /????/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

wrength (uncountable)

1. (rare and now nonstandard) The state or condition of being wrong; wrongness; wrongfulness.
   • 1823, Ringan Gilhaize, The covenanters, by the author of Annals of the parish:

     Those who would exalt themselves by abetting the strength of the Godless, and the wrength of the oppressors.

   • 1905, Juvenile Nonfiction

     [...] Wrong is short-lived, and right must vanquish at length, If, scorning the wrong, we do others no wrength.

   • 2012, Amber McRee Turner, Sway:

     "Dad," I said, "this isn't an in-between, is it?" "This isn't an in-between," He said. "Honestly, Cass, I'm at a loss for what to call this." "I know exactly what to call it," I said. "Wrength." "Wrength?" "Wrongness." In fact, the way I saw it, Mom had invented a whole new level of wrongness. A bad so bad that wrength might not even be capable of describing it. [...]"

Related terms

• wrong

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English *wrengþu (“wrongfulness”), from Old English wrang (“wrong”), or formed in Middle English from wrong +? -th on analogy with strength and length.

Noun

wrength (plural wrengths)

1. The state or quality of being wrong, wrongfulness, injustice; crookedness; distortion.
   • c1220, Bestiary 85 in Old Eng. Misc. 3:

     Ðanne goð he to a ston, & he billeð ðer-on, Billeð til his bec biforn haueð ðe wrengðe forloren.

Descendants

• Scots: wrength
• English: wrength

Scots

Etymology

1823, from wrang, wrong (“wrong”), formed on analogy with strength (from strong), length (from long) by R. Gilhaize Galt, or from Middle English wrength (“wrongfulness”). More at wrong.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?ngth, IPA^(key): /r???/

Noun

wrength (plural wrengths)

1. wrongfulness, injustice

Related terms

• wrong

References

• William Graham, The Scots Word Book, "injustice", 1980.
• Notes:

English

Etymology

Rapa Nui mo'ai (“statue, figurine”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo?.a?/

Noun

moai (plural moai or moais)

1. One of the large stone statues on Easter Island (Rapa Nui).
   • 2012, John Loret, John T. Tanacredi, Easter Island, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 26:

     As the years passed, the Moais and Ahus became larger and larger, many with red scoria top crowns weighing as much as ten tons.

Translations

See also

• ahu (“the stone platform of the moai”)

Further reading

• moai on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• IMAO, MAOI, MIOA, Maio, Miao, amio

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *mon?j.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?mo??j/

Pronoun

moai

1. we (two)

Inflection

See also

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Portuguese

Noun

moai m (plural moais)

1. moai (type of stone statue on Easter Island)

Spanish

Noun

moai m (plural moais)

1. moai

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch mooi (“pretty, nice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?j/

Adjective

moai

1. beautiful, pretty, nice

Inflection

Further reading

“moai”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011