waz

See also: waż, wąż, Wąż, and wȧz

English

Noun

waz

1. Alternative form of wazz (“act of urination”)

See also

• waz up

Anagrams

• Zaw

Jersey Dutch

Alternative forms

• wās
• wāz
• was

Etymology

Cognate to Dutch was (“was”). Compare English was.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɑs/

Verb

waz

1. was (third person singular past tense of the copula)
   • 1912, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal— en letterkunde, volumes 31-32, page 309:

     Hāi waz nît tevrêde täus […]

     He was not content at home […]

Middle High German

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German waz.

Pronoun

waȥ

1. what

Declension

Declension of waȥ
nominative	waȥ
genitive	wës
dative	wëm, wëme
accusative	waȥ
instrumental	wiu

Related terms

• wër (“who”)

Descendants

• Alemannic German: waas, waa, was, wa (unstressed)
• Central Franconian: wat
• Cimbrian: bas, baz (Luserna)
• Hunsrik: was
• German: was
• Luxembourgish: wat
• Yiddish: וואָס (vos)

References

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “waz”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

Old High German

Alternative forms

• whaz, hwaz, hwat

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod. Cognate with Dutch wat, English what, Danish hvad. More at what.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /was/

Pronoun

waȥ

1. what

Declension

Declension of waȥ
nominative	waȥ
genitive	wes
dative	wemu, wemo
accusative	waȥ
instrumental	wiu

Related terms

• wer (“who”)

Descendants

• Middle High German: waz, wat
  • Alemannic German: waas, waa, was, wa (unstressed)
  • Central Franconian: wat
  • Cimbrian: bas, baz (Luserna)
  • Hunsrik: was
  • German: was
  • Luxembourgish: wat
  • Yiddish: וואָס (vos)

References

1. Joseph Wright, 'An Old High German Primer, Second Edition'

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvas/
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: waz

Noun

waz f

1. genitive plural of waza

Yola

Verb

waz

1. Alternative form of waas
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 12-14:

     az avare ye trad dicke londe yer name waz ee-kent var ee vriene o' livertie, an He fo brake ye neckarès o' zlaves.

     for before your foot pressed the soil, your name was known to us as the friend of liberty, and he who broke the fetters of the slave.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114