wac

wac

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Wasco-Wishram.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Wasco-Wishram terms

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaħ/ [ˈwʌħ]
• Hyphenation: wac

wac m

1. coldness

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “wac”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

wac

1. alternative form of woke

From Proto-West Germanic *waikw, from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz, whence also Old High German weih, Old Norse veikr.

• IPA^(key): /wɑːk/
• Rhymes: -ɑːk

wāc (comparative wācra)

1. pliant
2. weak
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     Ne sċeal nō tō hātheort, · ne tō hrædwyrde,
     ne tō wāc wiga, · ne tō wanhȳdiġ,
     ne tō forht, ne tō fæġen, · ne tō feohġīfre,
     ne nǣfre ġielpes tō ġeorn, · ǣr hē ġeare cunne.

     Should not be too wrathful, nor too hasty in words,
     nor too weak warrior, nor too careless,
     nor too fearful, nor too joyful, nor too eager for money,
     nor ever too eager of pride, before he would know enough.

3. mean, poor, of little value
   • 10th century, The Seafarer:

     Ġedroren is þēos duguð eal, drēamas sind ġewitene, wuniað þā wācran ond þās woruld healdaþ, brūcað þurh bisgo.

     This army has fallen utterly, glees are gone, the worse live and hold the world, wield with hardships.

   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     Hēr ġeendode
     eorþan drēamas
     Ēadgār Engla cyning.
     Ċēas him ōþer lēoht,
     wlitiġ ⁊ wynsum,
     ⁊ þis wāce forlēt,
     līf þis lǣne.

     In this year ended
     the earthly merriments
     of King Edgar of the Angles.
     He chose the other light,
     beautiful and pleasant,
     and he left this poor,
     this fleeting life.

• wācian
• wāclīċ
• wācnes

• Middle English: woke, wok, wac, woc, wooc
  • Scots: woke, waik, wake (conflated with Middle English weyk)

Inherited from Proto-Cushitic *wa(a)c- (“to yell”). Compare Egyptian wꜥꜣ (“to curse”).

Cognate with Oromo waamuu.

wac (causative wici, passive wacan, middle waco)

1. (transitive) call

• “wac”, in Qaamuuska Af-Soomaaliga, 2012

wac

1. struggle, battle