# waw
## Translingual
### Symbol

waw
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Waiwai.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Waiwai terms

## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English wawen, waȝien, from Old English wagian (“to move, shake, swing, totter”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagōn, from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”).
Cognate with German wagen (“to venture, dare, risk”), Dutch wagen (“to venture, dare, also to move, stir”), Swedish våga (“to dare”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɔː/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː
* Homophone: war

#### Verb

waw (third-person singular simple present waws, present participle wawing, simple past and past participle wawed)
* (transitive, obsolete) To stir; move; wave.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English wawe, waȝe, waghe, from Old English wǣg (“motion, water, wave, billow, flood, sea”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāg, from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“wave, storm”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”).
Cognate with North Frisian weage (“water, wave”), German Wag, Woge (“wave”), French vague (“wave”), Swedish våg (“wave”).

#### Alternative forms

* wawe

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɔː/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː
* Homophone: war

#### Noun

waw (plural waws)
* (obsolete) A wave.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:[…] nigh it drawes All passengers, that none from it can shift: For whiles they fly that Gulfes deuouring iawes, They on this rock are rent, and sunck in helplesse wawes.

### Etymology 3

From Middle English wawe, wowe, waugh, wough, from Old English wāh, wāg (“a wall, partition”), from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, twist”).
Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch, Saterland Frisian Wooge (“indoor wall, partition”).

#### Alternative forms

* wo (Northern England, Derbyshire)
* waugh (Scotland)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɔː/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː
* Homophone: war

#### Noun

waw (plural waws)
* (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) A wall.
** 1678, John Ray, A Collection of English Proverbs, section 75:She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and a waw a wall.
** 1886, Thomas Farrall, Betty Wilson's Cummerland Teals, section 41:T'ootside waws was whitewesh't.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:wo.

### Etymology 4

From Arabic وَاو (wāw). Doublet of wau.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɑːw/, /waʊ/

#### Noun

waw (plural waws)
* The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و.
* Alternative spelling of vav
** 2006, George Athas, The Tel Dan Inscription: A Reappraisal and a New Introduction, page 147:Rather, the waws of both fragments are demonstrably similar. What Cryer and Becking fail to note is that the style of waw used in Fragment B is also used in Fragment A.

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* aww

## Ibatan
### Etymology

Compare Yami awaw and Tagalog uhaw.

### Adjective

waw
* thirsty

## Ivatan
### Etymology

Cognate with Yami awaw.

### Adjective

waw
* thirsty

## Maguindanao
### Noun

waw
* thirst

## Mapudungun
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

waw (Raguileo spelling)
* A valley.

### References

* Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

## Maranao
### Noun

waw
* thirst

## Middle English
### Noun

waw
* Alternative form of wawe

## Portuguese
### Noun

waw m (plural waws)
* Alternative spelling of uau

## Scots
### Etymology

From Old English wagian (“wave, undulate”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɔː/

### Noun

waw (plural waws)
* (water) wave