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wae

See also: WAE, waé, and wa.é

English

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Noun

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wae (countable and uncountable, plural waes)

  1. (Scotland) woe
    Wae is me!

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Buginese

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Noun

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wae

  1. Alternative spelling of waé (“water”)

Buru (Indonesia)

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

Noun

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wae

  1. (Namrole Bay) water

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Hawaiian

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Polynesian *waqe (“leg” – compare with Maori wae, Tahitian vae and Tahitian ʻāvae, Tongan vaʻe).[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *waqay from Proto-Austronesian *waqay.[2][3]

Noun

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wae

  1. (rare) leg
    Synonym: wāwae

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  1. ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “wae”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 375
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “waqe”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 167-8

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Polynesian *wase (“to divide, separate” – compare with Maori wae, Tahitian vae, Tongan vae, Samoan vae),[1] from Proto-Oceanic *wase (compare with Fijian vase)[2][3]

Verb

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wae

  1. to choose, select, pick out, to sort
  2. to separate, to discriminate
  3. to draft
  4. to cull
  5. to be finicky or fussy

References

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  1. ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “wae”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 375
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “wahe”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2023) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 6: People & society, Canberra: Australian National University, pages 413-6

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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wae

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter w/W.

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Although the letter ⟨w⟩ is not used in Irish, it has a name so it can be referred to in mathematical or scientific usage or when spelling words in other languages.

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Maori

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Polynesian *waqe (“leg” – compare with Tahitian vae and Tahitian ʻāvae, Tongan vaʻe),[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *waqay from Proto-Austronesian *waqay.[2][3]

Noun

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wae

  1. (anatomy) leg
  2. (anatomy) foot

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 584-5
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “waqe”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 167-8

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Polynesian *wase (“to divide, separate” – compare with Tahitian vae, Tongan vae, Samoan vae), from Proto-Oceanic *wase (compare with Fijian vase).[1][2]

Verb

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wae (passive waea or waetia)

  1. (mathematics) to divide
  2. to separate
  3. to clear away

References

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  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “wahe”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  2. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2023) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 6: People & society, Canberra: Australian National University, pages 413-6

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Further reading

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  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “wae”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 554
  • “wae” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

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Etymology

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From Old English wā, wēa, from Proto-Germanic *wai, whence also Dutch wee, German Weh, weh, Danish ve, Yiddish וויי (vey). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Compare Latin vae, Albanian vaj, French ouais, Ancient Greek οὐαί (ouaí), Persian وای (vây) (Turkish vay, a Persian borrowing), and Armenian վայ (vay).

Noun

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wae (plural waes)

  1. woe
    Wae is me!
    Woe is me!

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