wain

• IPA^(key): /weɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn

From Middle English wayn, from Old English wæġn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos, from *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”). Cognate with West Frisian wein, Dutch wagen, German Wagen, Danish vogn, Norwegian vogn, Swedish vagn. Doublet of wagon, a borrowing from Dutch.

An oil painting of a hay wain by John Constable

wain (plural wains)

1. (archaic or literary) A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.

   "The Hay Wain" is a famous painting by John Constable.

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:wain.

• Charles' Wain
• wainwright

wain (third-person singular simple present wains, present participle waining, simple past and past participle wained)

1. (rare, transitive) To carry.

wain (third-person singular simple present wains, present participle waining, simple past and past participle wained)

1. Misspelling of wane.

   As the auto industry is waining away, the city is looking for something new.

• IAWN, inaw, iwan

Borrowed from English wine.

wain

1. wine

wain

1. Rōmaji transcription of ワイン

wain

1. brook; creek; stream

wain

1. woman

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

wain

1. Alternative form of wayn (“wagon”)

From English wine.

wain

1. wine

• IPA^(key): /wai̯n/

wain

1. Soft mutation of gwain.