# wast
## English
### Etymology 1

From Late Middle English wast; equivalent to was +‎ -est.

#### Pronunciation

(stressed)
* (UK) enPR: wŏst, IPA: /wɒst/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) enPR: wôst, IPA: /wɔst/
* (cot–caught merger) enPR: wäst, IPA: /wɑst/
* Rhymes: -ɒst
(unstressed)
* (UK, US) enPR: wəst, IPA: /wəst/

#### Verb

wast
* (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of be; wert.
    I remember the day when thou wast born.
** c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene 2 (a hunting song)]:Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born […]
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 3:11:And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 16:5:And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
** 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, lines 97–99:Alas! We two, we two, thou say'st! Yea, one wast thou with me That once of old.

#### See also

* am
* are
* art
* be
* been
* beest
* being
* is
* was
* were
* wert

#### References

* “wast”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
* “wast”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

wast (plural wasts)
* Obsolete form of waist.

### Anagrams

* 'twas, ATWS, AWTs, S.W.A.T., SWAT, Swat, TAWS, TWAs, WSTA, sawt, staw, swat, taws, wats

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑst
* IPA: /ʋɑst/

### Verb

wast
* inflection of wassen:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** (archaic) plural imperative

## Gothic
### Romanization

wast
* Romanization of 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐍄

## Maltese

* Root
* w-s-t
* 4 terms

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwast/

### Preposition

wast
* (obsolete) Alternative form of fost

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Northern French wast (adjective), from Frankish *wōstī, from Proto-Germanic *wōstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to desert”). Doublet of weste (“deserted”).

#### Alternative forms

* vaste, waast, waest, waist, waste

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /waːst/, /wast/

#### Adjective

wast (plural and weak singular waste)
* uncultivated, deserted, desolate
* extravagant, wasteful, excessive
* useless, empty, meaningless

##### Related terms

* wasten
* wastful
* wastite
* wastour
* wastyne

##### Descendants

* English: waste
* Scots: waste

##### References

* “wā̆st(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Northern French wast (noun), from the adjective. Doublet of weste (“wilderness”).

#### Alternative forms

* waast, waste

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /waːst/, /wast/

#### Noun

wast (plural wastes)
* Uncultivated or deserted land; wilderness.
* Devastation, ruination; making waste.
* (property law) Damage to property or that which causes it.
* The utilisation or expenditure of resources:
** Extravagant or wasteful consumption.
** Useless or ineffectual behaviour; futility.
* (rare) Waste, rubbish; useless things.

##### Descendants

* English: waste
* Scots: waste
* Yola: wauste

##### References

* “wā̆st(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 3

Apparently inherited from Old English *wæst, *wæxt, *weahst, from Proto-West Germanic *wahstu, from Proto-Germanic *wahstuz; compare waxen (“to grow”).
Forms with /aː/ may be due to the analogy of the variation between /aː/ and /a/ in Etymologies 1 and 2.

#### Alternative forms

* waast, waist, waste
* wacst (Early Middle English)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /waːst/, /wast/

#### Noun

wast (plural wastes)
* (uncommon) waist (bottom of the chest).
* (rare) waist (middle portion of a ship's hull)

##### Descendants

* English: waist
** → Japanese: ウエスト (uesuto)
* Scots: waist
* ⇒ Yola: wauscoat

##### References

* “wā̆st(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 4

From was +‎ -est; partially replacing earlier were.

#### Alternative forms

* waste

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wast/

#### Verb

wast
* (Late Middle English) second-person singular past indicative of been

##### Descendants

* English: wast (archaic)
* Yola: wasth

### Etymology 5
#### Verb

wast
* Alternative form of wasten

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɑːst/

### Verb

wāst
* second-person singular present of witan

## Old French
### Noun

wast oblique singular, m (oblique plural waz or watz, nominative singular waz or watz, nominative plural wast)
* Alternative form of gast

## Old Gutnish
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wast, second-person singular indicative past of *wesaną.

### Verb

wast
* second-person singular indicative past of wara

## Scots
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr, from Proto-Germanic *westraz, from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros. Cognate to English west.

### Adverb

wast (comparative mair wast, superlative maist wast)
* west
* back, sideways; upstream

### Preposition

wast
* west
* over, across
    She wis walkin wast the road. - She was walking across the road.

### Adjective

wast (comparative mair wast, superlative maist wast)
* west

### See also

* (compass points)
| | north | |
| wast | | east |
| | sooth | |