wæg

From Proto-West Germanic *wāg (“wave”). Cognate with Old Norse vágr (“sea”), Swedish våg (“wave”), German Woge (“wave”).^[1]

• wāg, wēġ — attested only in plural forms

• IPA^(key): /wæːj/

wǣġ m (nominative plural wǣgas)

1. (poetic) wave
2. (poetic) water (as an open place / means of transportation instead of a substance)

Strong a-stem:

• (wave): ȳþ (the normal prose term)

• wǣġholm

Possibly from Proto-Germanic *wajjuz.

• IPA^(key): /wæːj/

wǣġ m

1. a wall, usually of a building
2. alternative form of wāg

From Proto-West Germanic *wāgu (“scales; weight”).

• wǣġe

• IPA^(key): /wæːj/

wǣġ f

2. a weight
3. a balance or scales
   • c. 994, Ælfric, On the Year

     Ǣlċe mōnað hēo yrnð under ān þǣra tacna. Ān þǣra tacna ys ġehāten aries, þæt is ramm; oðer taurus, þæt is fearr; ðridda gemini, þæt synd ġetwisan; fēorða cancer, þæt is crabba; fīfta leo; syxta virgo, þæt is mǣden; seofoða libra, þæt is pund orde wǣġe; eahtoðe scorpius, þæt is þrōwend; nigoða is sagittarius, þæt is sċytta; teoða ys capricornus, þæt is buccan horn, oððe bucca; endlyfta is aquarius, þæt is wæter-ġyte, oððe þe þe wæter ġyt; twelfte is pisces, þæt synd fixas.

     Each month runs under one of the signs [of the Zodiac]. The first of the signs is called aries, that is "ram"; the second is taurus, that is "bull"; the third is gemini, that is "twins"; the fourth is cancer, that is "crab"; the fifth is lion; the sixth is virgo, that is "virgin"; the seventh is libra, that is "pound" or "scales"; eighth is scorpious, that is "scorpion"; ninth is sagittarius, that is "shooter"; tenth is capricornus, that is "he-goat's horn" or "he-goat"; eleventh is aquarius, that is "pouring water" or "one that pours water"; twelfth is pisces, that is "fishes."

Strong ō-stem:

• Middle English: wei, weie, waie, weihe, wæȝe
  • English: wey

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /wæj/

wæġ

1. first/third-person singular preterite of wegan

From Proto-Germanic *wegaz.

• IPA^(key): /wæj/

wæġ m

1. alternative form of weġ (“a way; a road”)

Strong a-stem: