wae

wae (countable and uncountable, plural waes)

1. (Scotland) woe

   Wae is me!

• AEW, Awe, EAW, WEA, awe, eaw

wae

1. Alternative spelling of waé (“water”)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

wae

1. (Namrole Bay) water

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

• IPA^(key): /weː/

wae

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

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.

• (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.

wae

1. (anatomy) leg
2. (anatomy) foot

wae (passive waea or waetia)

1. (mathematics) to divide
2. to separate
3. to clear away

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).

wae (plural waes)

1. woe

   Wae is me!

   Woe is me!

• awe