wawe

From Middle English wawe, waghe. Not the same word as wave.

wawe (plural wawes)

1. Alternative form of waw (“wave”)

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

From inflected forms in wāg- of Old English wǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *wāg, from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz.

• waghe, waue, waȝe, wau, waw

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /waɣ/
• IPA^(key): /wau̯/

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.

• wawy

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

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

From wawe +‎ -y.

wawe

1. Alternative form of wawy

From Old English wagian.

wawe

1. Alternative form of wawen

From Old English wāwa.

wawe

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of wowe

wawe

1. inflection of -wa:
   1. third-person plural subjunctive affirmative
   2. m-wa class subject inflected plural subjunctive affirmative

wawe

1. woman

• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary