wagen

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋaːɣə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: wa‧gen
• Rhymes: -aːɣən

From Middle Dutch wāgen, from Old Dutch wagan, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos, from *weǵʰ-. Doublet of wagon.

wagen m (plural wagens, diminutive wagentje n)

1. a wagon, carriage

   Synonyms: kar, wagon

2. (mainly the diminutive) a cart

   Synonym: kar

3. an automobile, car, van

   Synonyms: auto, automobiel, kar

4. a sled, moving platform on wheels or rails a heavy machine etc. is mounted on
5. (metonymic) a load filling one of the above vehicles

   Synonym: wagenlading

- vehicle types

• wagon

• Afrikaans: wa
• Jersey Dutch: wâxe
• → Lokono: wagen
• → Sranan Tongo: wagi
  • → Aukan: wagi
  • → Dutch: waggie
  • → Caribbean Javanese: wagé
  • → Saramaccan: wági

From Middle Dutch wâgen. Equivalent to waag (“weighing scales”) +‎ -en.

wagen

1. (intransitive) to venture, take risks
2. (transitive) to dare, presume
3. (transitive) to risk, to jeopardize

• durven
• riskeren

• waaghals
• waagstuk
• wie niet waagt, die niet wint

From Middle Dutch wāgen, from Old Dutch *wagon, from Proto-West Germanic *wagōn, from Proto-Germanic *wagōną.

wagen

1. (transitive) to move
2. (intransitive) to be moved, literally or figuratively in many senses

• wagebaard
• waagboom

• gewagen

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wagen

1. plural of waag

From Middle High German wāgen, ultimately from from Old High German wāga (“scales, balance; weight”) (see Waage), in the sense of putting something on the scales, not knowing where the balance will fall.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaːɡən/, [ˈvaːɡŋ̩]

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• Rhymes: -aːɡn̩
• Homophones: vagen, Waagen, Wagen
• Hyphenation: wa‧gen

wagen (weak, third-person singular present wagt, past tense wagte, past participle gewagt, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to dare (to do something, despite possible risks)

   einen Versuch wagen ― to dare an attempt, to decide to make an attempt

   etwas zu bezweifeln wagen ― to doubt something (literally: to dare to doubt something)

   Wie können Sie es wagen, so etwas zu tun? ― How dare you do something like this?

2. (reflexive) to dare to go, to venture (despite some perceived danger)

   Synonym: sich trauen

   Wir haben uns in die Höhle gewagt. ― We dared to enter the cave.

3. (archaic, transitive) to risk (one's life, etc.)

   Synonyms: riskieren, aufs Spiel setzen

• Waage
• wiegen
• wägen

• “wagen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “wagen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “wagen” in Duden online
• “wagen” in OpenThesaurus.de

From Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn.

wāgen m

1. A wagon, cart.

• Dutch: wagen
• Limburgish: wage
• → English: wagon, waggon (British, dated)
  • → Dutch: wagon
  • → French: wagon (see there for further descendants)
  • → German: Waggon
  • → Japanese: わごん, ワゴン (wagon)
  • → Polish: wagon
  • → Spanish: vagón
• → Scots: waggen, wagun, wagoun

From Old Dutch *wagon, from Proto-West Germanic *wagōn, from Proto-Germanic *wagōną.

wāgen

1. To venture.

• Dutch: wagen
• Limburgish: wage

From wâge +‎ -en.

wâgen

1. To weigh, to determine the weight of.

• Dutch: wagen
• Limburgish: waoge

• “waghen (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “waghen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “waghen (IV)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “wagen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “wagen (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “wagen (VI)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page VI

• wage, wajon, wagge

From Old Northern French wagier; equivalent to wage +‎ -en (infinitival suffix). Doublet of wedden.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaːdʒən/

wagen

1. (transitive) To employ, use, or utilise a person.
2. (transitive) To give an item or a person as security or as a guarantee.
3. (transitive) To risk, potentially endanger.
4. (transitive, rare) To promise to avoid.

In the term wagen batayle (probably from the sense "to risk"; i.e. "to risk battle"), the word approaches something similar to the sense of English (to) wage.

• wajour

• English: wage
• Scots: wage

• “wāǧen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 April 2018.

• gwagen, wagon

Borrowed from English wagon.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈwaɡɛn/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈwa(ː)ɡɛn/

wagen m (plural wageni or wagenau, not mutable)

1. (vehicles) wagon, wain

H-prothesis does not affect this word as the ⟨w⟩ here represents the semivowel /w/ rather than a vowel sound.

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “wagen”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies