wawe
English
Etymology
From Old English wawe, waghe. Not the same word as wave.
Noun
wawe (plural wawes)
- (obsolete) A wave.
- Chaucer, The Kinght's Tale, lines 1099-1100:
- And fro the navele doun al covered was / With wawes grene, and brighte as any glas.
- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
- For, while they fly that gulf's devouring jawes,
They on the rock are rent and sunck in helplesse wawes.
- For, while they fly that gulf's devouring jawes,
- Chaucer, The Kinght's Tale, lines 1099-1100:
References
- wawe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Tunjung
Noun
wawe
References
- Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
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