wade

Meanings

Verb

• to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
• to progress with difficulty
• to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading
• To enter recklessly.

Noun

• An act of wading.
• A ford; a place to cross a river.

Origin

• From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- ("to go"). Cognates include German waten ("wade") and Latin vādō ("go, walk; rush") (whence English evade, invade, pervade).