wagen

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋaːɣə(n)/
• Rhymes: -aːɣən

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From Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch wagan, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos, from *weǵʰ-.

wagen m (plural wagens, diminutive wagentje n)

1. wagon, carriage

   Synonyms: kar, wagon

2. (mainly the diminutive) cart

   Synonym: kar

3. automobile, car, van

   Synonyms: auto, automobiel, kar

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

   Synonym: wagenlading

• benenwagen
• bestelwagen
• dienstwagen
• ijscowagen
• kinderwagen
• lastwagen
• politiewagen
• praalwagen
• vechtwagen
• vrachtwagen
• winkelwagen
• ziekenwagen

• Afrikaans: wa
• → English: wagon, waggon
  • → French: wagon
    • → Dutch: wagon
    • → Italian: vagone
    • → Russian: вагон (vagon)
      • → Armenian: վագոն (vagon)
      • → Azerbaijani: vaqon
      • → Bashkir: вагон (vagon)
      • → Georgian: ვაგონი (vagoni)
      • → Kazakh: вагон (vagon)
      • → Kyrgyz: вагон (vagon)
      • → Latvian: vagons
      • → Lithuanian: vagonas
      • → Mongolian: вагон (vagon)
      • → Tajik: вагон (vagon)
      • → Tatar: вагон (wağon)
      • → Turkmen: wagon
      • → Uzbek: vagon
      • → Yiddish: וואַגאָן‎‎ (vagon‎)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic: вагон

      Latin: vagon

    • → Slovak: vagón
  • → German: Waggon
  • → Japanese: わごん, ワゴン (wagon)
  • → Polish: wagon
  • → Spanish: vagón
• → Scots: waggen, wagun, wagoun

From Middle Dutch wagen. Cognate with German wagen.

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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, niet wint

From Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagon, 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 main entry.

wagen

1. Plural form of waag

From Middle High German wāgen, from Old High German wāga (“scales, balance; weight”), in the sense of to venture on a new object's weight. More at Waage.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaːɡən/, [ˈvaːɡŋ̩]

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

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

1. to venture, dare
2. to risk, jeopardize

• wagen in Duden online

From Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz.

wāgen m

1. wagon, cart

• Dutch: wagen
• Limburgish: wage

From Old Dutch *wagon, 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
• “wagen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
• “wagen (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
• “wagen (VI)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

• wage, wajon, wagge

From Old Northern French wagier; equivalent to wage +‎ -en (“verbal 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.

• English: (to) wage
• Scots: (to) wage

• “wāǧen (v.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.