wae

See also: WAE, waé, wa.é, and waə́

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Walser or German Walserdeutsch.

Symbol

wae

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Walser German.

English

Etymology 1

Preposition

wae

  1. (Scotland) Alternative form of with.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

wae (countable and uncountable, plural waes)

  1. (Scotland) Alternative form of woe.
    Wae is me!

Anagrams

Buginese

Noun

wae

  1. alternative spelling of waé (“water”)

Buru (Indonesia)

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

Noun

wae

  1. (Namrole Bay) water

References

Hawaiian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *waqe (“leg” – compare with Maori wae, Tahitian vae and Tahitian ʻāvae, Tongan vaʻe).[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *waqay from Proto-Austronesian *waqay.[2][3]

Noun

wae

  1. (rare) leg
    Synonym: wāwae

References

  1. ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “wae”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 375
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “waqe”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 167-8

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *wase (“to divide, separate” – compare with Maori wae, Tahitian vae, Tongan vae, Samoan vae),[1] from Proto-Oceanic *wase (compare with Fijian vase)[2][3]

Verb

wae

  1. to choose, select, pick out, to sort
  2. to separate, to discriminate
  3. to draft
  4. to cull
  5. to be finicky or fussy

References

  1. ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “wae”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 375
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “wahe”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2023) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 6: People & society, Canberra: Australian National University, pages 413-6

Derived terms

    • hoʻowae
    • waena
    • waenakonu
    • waewae

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /weː/

Noun

wae

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter w/W.

Usage notes

Although the letter ⟨w⟩ is not used in Irish, it has a name so it can be referred to in mathematical or scientific usage or when spelling words in other languages.

See also

Maori

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *waqe (“leg” – compare with Tahitian vae and Tahitian ʻāvae, Tongan vaʻe),[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *waqay from Proto-Austronesian *waqay.[2][3]

Noun

wae

  1. (anatomy) leg
  2. (anatomy) foot

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 584-5
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “waqe”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 167-8

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *wase (“to divide, separate” – compare with Tahitian vae, Tongan vae, Samoan vae), from Proto-Oceanic *wase (compare with Fijian vase).[1][2]

Verb

wae (passive waea or waetia)

  1. (mathematics) to divide
  2. to separate
  3. to clear away

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “wahe”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  2. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2023) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 6: People & society, Canberra: Australian National University, pages 413-6

Derived terms

    • waenga
    • wawae

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “wae”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 554
  • “wae” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Scots

Etymology

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

Noun

wae (plural waes)

  1. woe
    Wae is me!
    Woe is me!

Anagrams

Zazaki

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wa/ə
  • Hyphenation: wa‧e

Noun

wae f

  1. sister
    Synonyms: wa, ware, war, wae
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