waw

Meanings

Verb

• To stir; move; wave.

Noun

• A wave.
• A wall.
• The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و.
• Alternate spelling of vav

Origin

• From Middle English wawen, waȝien, from Old English wagian, from Proto-Germanic *wagōną ("to move"), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- ("to drag, carry"). Cognate with German wagen ("to venture, dare, risk"), Dutch wagen ("to venture, dare, also to move, stir"), Swedish våga ("to dare").
• From Middle English wawe, waȝe, waghe, from Old English wǣg ("motion, water, wave, billow, flood, sea"), from Proto-West Germanic *wāg, from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz ("wave, storm"), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- ("to drag, carry").
• Cognate with North Frisian weage ("water, wave"), German Wag, Woge, French vague ("wave"), Swedish våg ("wave").
• From Middle English wawe, wowe, waugh, wough, from Old English wāh, wāg, from Proto-Germanic *waigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- ("to bend, twist"). Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch, Saterland Frisian Wooge.
• From Arabic وَاو.