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Definitions and meaning of wae

wae

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.

Anagrams

• AEW, Awe, EAW, WEA, awe, eaw

Buginese

Noun

wae

1. alternative spelling of waé (“water”)

Buru (Indonesia)

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

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.

Hawaiian

Etymology 1

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

Noun

wae

1. (rare) leg

   Synonym: wāwae

References

Etymology 2

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

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

Derived terms

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

• (Latin-script letter names) litir; á, bé, cé, dé, é, eif, gé, héis, í, jé, cá, eil, eim, ein, ó, pé, cú, ear, eas, té, ú, vé, wae, ex, yé, zae
• Note: The English names are also widely used by Irish speakers.

Maori

Etymology 1

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

Noun

wae

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

References

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).

Verb

wae (passive waea or waetia)

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

References

Derived terms

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

Anagrams

• awe