waen

From Middle Low German wēsen, from Old Saxon wesan.

• IPA^(key): /ʋɛːn/

waen

1. (intransitive) to be

   Hier kö'j altied owzelf waen.

   Here you can always be yourself.

From Old Dutch wān, from Proto-West Germanic *wāni, from Proto-Germanic *wēniz.

wâen m

1. hope, expectation
2. opinion, feeling, hunch (without evidence)
3. suspicion
4. doubt

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: waan
  • Afrikaans: waan
• Limburgish: waan

• “waen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “waen (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II