wan-

From Middle English wan-, from Old English wan-, from Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“lacking, missing, deficient”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to be lacking, be empty”).

• IPA^(key): /wɒn/

wan-

1. (no longer productive except in Scotland) Preceding nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘bad, un-’

• NWA, awn, naw

From Middle Dutch wan-, from Old Dutch *wan-, from Proto-Germanic *wana-, a prefixing form of *wanaz.

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• IPA^(key): /ʋɑn/

wan-

1. Preceding nouns, verbs and adjectives with the sense ‘bad, un-’.

• wanklank
• wantij

• ƿan-

From Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“lacking”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to be lacking, be empty”).

• IPA^(key): /wɑn/

wan-

1. Forming nouns and adjectives with the sense privation or negation, ‘lacking, without; un-, wan-’.

From Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“lacking”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to be lacking, be empty”).

wan-

1. Forming nouns and adjectives with the sense privation or negation, ‘lacking, without; un-, wan-’.

From Old English wan-.

• IPA^(key): /wɒn/

wan-

1. Preceding nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘bad, un-’

   Examples: wanhope, wanrest