Wasen
German
Etymology
From Middle High German wase, from Old High German waso (“lawn, sod”), from Proto-Germanic *wasô, *waisǭ (“slime, muck”). Cognate with Dutch waas, French gazon. See also Rasen.
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Wasen m (strong, genitive Wasens, plural Wasen)
- (archaic) lawn, turf, sod
- Synonym: Rasen
- 1982, Gudrun Embacher, Der Narr Wohlgemuth, Berg / Starnberger See: Hohenstaufen Verlag, →ISBN, page 180:
- Hinten im Wirtschaftshof kollerte ein Truthahn, der sehr nahe Ombrone zerrte ärgerlich murrend an den Uferrändern und unterwusch den Wasen und kaute große Stücke ab; es war kalt, die Bergketten des Apennin bis tief herunter verschneit, das Tal lehmgrau und da und dort auch düster grün, fast schmutziggrün, wo sich Pinien zu einem lockeren Wäldchen gesellten.
- Back in the yard a turkey gobbled, the very close Ombrone tore irately at the shores and undercut the lawn and gnawed off large chunks of it; it was cold, the mountain ranges of the Apennine snowy up to the very bottom, the valley clay-gray and here and there also of an eerie green tint, almost dirty-green, where pines join a sparse forest.
- wet meadow
- Synonym: Wiese
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