waas

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• waa
• was, wa (unstressed)

Etymology

From Middle High German waz, from Old High German waz. Cognate with German was, Dutch wat, English what, Icelandic hvað.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑː/

Pronoun

waas

1. what

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wāse, wāze, waes (“mud, mire”), from Proto-West Germanic *waisā, from Proto-Germanic *waisǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋaːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

• Audio:

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Noun

waas n (plural wazen, diminutive waasje n)

1. haze, mist
2. bloom
3. film

Derived terms

• wazig

Related terms

• wasem

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Sundanese waas

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈwaas/ [ˈwa.(ʔ)as]
• Rhymes: -aas
• Syllabification: wa‧as

Adjective

waas (comparative lebih waas, superlative paling waas)

1. nostalgic; melancholic; wistful; saudade

Further reading

• “waas”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Sundanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /waˈas/, [waˈʔas]

Adjective

waas (Sundanese spelling ᮝᮃᮞ᮪)

1. feeling nostalgic; melancholic; wistful; saudade

   Abdi mah mun ningali pasawahan téh sok waas.

   Whenever I look at the rice fields, I'm always nostalgic.

Descendants

• → Indonesian: waas

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

From Middle High German weize, from Old High German weizi. Cognate to German Weizen.

Noun

waas m

1. wheat

Etymology 2

Cognate to German Weise.

Noun

waas ?

1. orphan

Yola

Alternative forms

• was, waz
• 'as, as (after Ich)

Etymology

From Middle English wā̆s, from Old English wæs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /waːz/, /waz/, /az/

Verb

waas

1. was
   • 1867, “OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR“, page 16:

     'Chas, for Ich waas.

     I was.

2. were

Related terms

• wasth
• war

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 16