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名詞

wawe (plural wawes)

1. Alternative form of waw (“wave”)

参照

• “wawe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

別の表記

• waghe, waue, waȝe, wau, waw

発音

• (Early Middle English) IPA: /waɣ/
• IPA: /wau̯/

名詞

wawe (plural wawes)

1. A wave (moving zone of water or other flowing substance; undulation)
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knyghtes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 1099-1100:

     And fro the navele doun al covered was / With wawes grene, and brighte as any glas.

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2. Any sort of flowing or spurting motion.
3. (usually in the plural) The ocean; a large body of water.
4. (figurative) A force of change or disruption.

関連する語

• wawy

派生した語

• English: waw, wawe (obsolete)
• Scots: waw

参照

• “wau(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-11.

語源 2

形容詞

wawe

1. Alternative form of wawy

語源 3

動詞

wawe

1. Alternative form of wawen

語源 4

From 古期英語 wāwa.

名詞

wawe

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of wowe