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wáwa

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
wáwa, an ; m.
Woe, misery
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  • On dære wǽron áwritene heófunga and leóð and wáwa (scriptae erant in eo lamentationes et carmen et uae) . . . se wáwa getácnaþ ðone écan wáwan, ðe ða habbaþ on hellewíte, ðe nú God forseób,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 48
      • ;
    • Zup. 279, 1-8.

  • Ðonne sceal eów weaxan tó hearme wǽdl and wáwa,

    • Wulfst. 133 3.

  • Ceósan gódes and yfeles, welan and wáwan,

    • Cd. Th. 30, 12
      • ;
    • Gen. 466.

  • On ǽlcum wáwan bí wǽron geþyldige,

    • Homl. Skt. ii. 28, 130.

  • Uae geíácnaþ wáwan,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 48
      • ;
    • Zup. 278, 17.

  • Sume hí wyrcaþ heora wógerum sumne wáwan, ðæt hí hí tó wífe habbon,

    • Homl. Skt. i. 17, 158.

  • Ðæt gé swá earme eów sylfe fordóþ on wíton and on wáwon,

    • 23, 186.

  • Hí gesáwon ða mænigfealdon wáwan ðe Cristes ða gecorenan þoledon,

    • 23, 124.
Etymology
[To þolien wawe mid douelen, O. E. Homl. i. 73, 11.
For ðon muchele wawen þet hi iðoleden, 87, 12.
Of þan wowe alse of þe wele, ii. 197, 8.
Mochel wowe (seorwen, 1st MS. ), Laym. 6268.
Þolemod aȝean alle wowes, A. R. 198, 26.
To þolenn ale wawenn, Orm. 13349.
Al þat heo singeþ hit is for wowe, O. and N. 414 .
O. H. Ger. wéwo; m. ; wéwa ; f. dolor, poena, malum.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wáwa.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/34723.

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