wain
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /weɪn/
- Rhymes: -eɪn
Etymology 1
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.
Quotations
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Related terms
Translations
Verb
wain (third-person singular simple present wains, present participle waining, simple past and past participle wained)
- (rare, transitive) To carry.
Etymology 2
Medebur
Further reading
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Middle English
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