Waw

Pronunciation

• IPA: /wɔː/

From Middle English wawen, waȝien, from Old English wagian ("to move, shake, swing, totter"), from Proto-Germanic *wagōną ("to move"), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵhe- ("to drag, carry"). Cognate with German wagen ("to venture, dare, risk"), Swedish våga ("to dare").

Full definition of waw

Verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To stir; move; wave.

From Middle English wawe, waȝe, from Old English wǣg ("motion, water, wave, billow, flood, sea"), from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz ("wave, storm"), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵhe- ("to drag, carry"). Cognate with North Frisian weage ("water, wave"), German Wag, Woge ("wave"), French vague ("wave"), Swedish våg ("wave").

Noun

1. (obsolete, water) A wave.
• Spenser Faerie Queene, II.xii:nigh it drawes
  All passengers, that none from it can shift:
  For whiles they fly that Gulfes deuouring iawes,
  They on this rock are rent, and sunck in helplesse wawes.

From Arabic واو.

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Noun

1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: Ùˆ.
2. Alternative spelling of vav

Anagrams

• aww