waas

• waa
• was, wa (unstressed)

From Middle High German waz, from Old High German waz, from Proto-Germanic *hwat. Cognate with German was, Dutch wat, English what, Icelandic hvað.

• IPA^(key): /vɑː/

waas

1. what

From Middle Dutch wāse, wāze, waes (“mud, mire”), from Proto-Germanic *waisǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ʋaːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

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waas n (plural wazen, diminutive waasje n)

1. haze, mist
2. bloom
3. film

• wasem

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Cognate to German Weizen.

waas m

1. wheat

Cognate to German Weise.

waas ?

1. orphan

• was, waz
• 'as, as (after Ich)

From Middle English wās, from Old English wæs.

• IPA^(key): /wɔːz/, /ɔːz/

waas

1. was
   • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR:

     'Chas, for Ich waas.

     I was.

2. were

• wasth
• war

• 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 16