# wae
## English
### Noun

wae (countable and uncountable, plural waes)
* (Scotland) woe
    Wae is me!

### See also

* mad wae it

### Anagrams

* AEW, Awe, EAW, WEA, awe, eaw

## Buginese
### Noun

wae
* Alternative spelling of waé (“water”)

## Buru (Indonesia)
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

### Noun

wae
* (Namrole Bay) water

### References

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

## Hawaiian
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *waqe (“leg” – compare with Maori wae, Tahitian vae and Tahitian ʻāvae, Tongan vaʻe). from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *waqay from Proto-Austronesian *waqay.

#### Noun

wae
* (rare) leg
    Synonym: wāwae

#### References

* ↑ Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “wae”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 375
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “waqe”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* ↑ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 167-8

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *wase (“to divide, separate” – compare with Maori wae, Tahitian vae, Tongan vae, Samoan vae), from Proto-Oceanic *wase (compare with Fijian vase)

#### Verb

wae
* to choose, select, pick out, to sort
* to separate, to discriminate
* to draft
* to cull
* to be finicky or fussy

#### References

* ↑ Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “wae”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 375
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “wahe”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* ↑ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2023) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 6: People & society, Canberra: Australian National University, pages 413-6

### Derived terms

* hoʻowaewaenawaenakonuwaewae

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /weː/

### Noun

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

#### Usage notes

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.

#### See also

* (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.

## Maori
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *waqe (“leg” – compare with Tahitian vae and Tahitian ʻāvae, Tongan vaʻe), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *waqay from Proto-Austronesian *waqay.

#### Noun

wae
* (anatomy) leg
* (anatomy) foot

#### References

* ↑ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 584-5
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “waqe”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* ↑ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 167-8

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *wase (“to divide, separate” – compare with Tahitian vae, Tongan vae, Samoan vae), from Proto-Oceanic *wase (compare with Fijian vase).

#### Verb

wae (passive waea or waetia)
* (mathematics) to divide
* to separate
* to clear away

#### References

* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “wahe”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* ↑ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2023) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 6: People & society, Canberra: Australian National University, pages 413-6

### Derived terms

* waengawawae

### Further reading

* 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.

## Scots
### Etymology

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).

### Noun

wae (plural waes)
* woe
    Wae is me!Woe is me!

### Anagrams

* awe