wae

wae (countable and uncountable, plural waes)

1. (Scotland) woe

   Wae is me!

• AEW, Awe, EAW, WEA, awe, eaw

wae

1. Alternative spelling of waé (“water”)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

wae

1. (Namrole Bay) water

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

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]

wae

1. (rare) leg

   Synonym: wāwae

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]

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

• • hoʻowae
  • waena
  • waenakonu
  • waewae

   

• IPA^(key): /weː/

wae

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

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.

• (Latin-script letter names) litir; á, bé, cé, dé, é, eif, gé, héis, í, jé, cá, eil, eim, ein, ó, pé, cú, ear, eas, té, ú, vé, wae, ex, yé, zae
• Note: The English names are also widely used by Irish speakers.

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]

wae

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

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]

wae (passive waea or waetia)

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

• • waenga
  • wawae

   

• 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.

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).

wae (plural waes)

1. woe

   Wae is me!

   Woe is me!

• awe