adaw

English

Etymology

Compare Middle English adawe.

Verb

adaw (third-person singular simple present adaws, present participle adawing, simple past and past participle adawed)

  1. (obsolete) To subdue; to daunt.
    • Edmund Spenser
      He, comming home at undertime, there found / The fayrest creature, that he ever saw, / Sitting beside his mother on the ground; / The sight whereof did greatly him adaw.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for adaw in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

adaw

  1. baby monkey

Middle Welsh

Etymology 1

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈadau̯/

Verb

adaw

  1. to leave
  2. to allow
  3. to let go
Conjugation
  • first-person singular present: adawaf, eidawaf
  • third-person singular preterite: edewis
Descendants

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈaðau̯/

Verb

aðaw

  1. to promise
Descendants

Mutation
Middle Welsh mutation
RadicalSoftNasalH-prothesis
adawunchangedunchangedhadaw
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
Middle Welsh mutation
RadicalSoftNasalH-prothesis
aðawunchangedunchangedhaðaw
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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