wange
Middle English
Noun
wange (plural wanges)
- cheek; jaw
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- Our manciple, I hope he wil be deed,
Swa werkes ay the wanges in his heed.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Old English
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *wangô (“cheek”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenǵ- (“neck, cheek”). More at wang.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwɑn.ɡe/, [ˈwɑŋ.ɡe]
Usage notes
Ēage, ēare, and wange are the only three neuter nouns regularly declined as weak nouns in Old English. However, unlike the former two, wange sometimes displays strong forms, either of the masculine or the feminine strong declension. Both possible declensions are given below.
Declension
Declension of wange (weak)
References
- Alan Campbell (1962) chapter XI, in Old English Grammar, Oxford, Clarendon Press, B, page 249, §618
Ternate
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈwa.ŋe]
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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