wain

See also: Wain and Wäin

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /weɪn/
  • Rhymes: -eɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Old English wæġn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos, from *weǵʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian wein, Dutch wagen, German Wagen, Danish/Norwegian vogn, Swedish vagn. Doublet of wagon, a borrowing from Dutch.

Noun

An oil painting of a large steerable cart being drawn by two strong horses through a river.
An oil painting of a hay wain by John Constable

wain (plural wains)

  1. (archaic or literary) A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
    "The Hay Wain" is a famous painting by John Constable.
Quotations
  • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:wain.
Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

wain (third-person singular simple present wains, present participle waining, simple past and past participle wained)

  1. Misspelling of wane.
    As the auto industry is waining away, the city is looking for something new.

Anagrams

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English wine.

Noun

wain

  1. wine

Japanese

Romanization

wain

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ワイン

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

wain

  1. brook; creek; stream

Medebur

Noun

wain

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Middle English

Noun

wain

  1. Alternative form of wayn (“wagon”)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English wine.

Noun

wain

  1. wine

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wai̯n/

Noun

wain

  1. Soft mutation of gwain.
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