wae

See also: WAE, waé, and wa.é

English

Noun

wae (countable and uncountable, plural waes)

(Scotland) woe
Wae is me!

Anagrams

Awe, awe, eaw

Buginese

wae

Alternative forms

ᨓᨕᨙ
uae (Soppeng)

Etymology

From Proto-South Sulawesi *wai, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

Noun

wae (Lontara spelling ᨓᨕᨙ)

water (clear liquid H₂O)

Buru (Indonesia)

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.

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