waz

waz

1. Alternative form of wazz (“act of urination”)

• waz up

• Zaw

• wās
• wāz
• was

Cognate to Dutch was (“was”). Compare English was.

• IPA^(key): /wɑs/

waz

1. was (third person singular past tense of the copula)
   • 1912, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal— en letterkunde, volumes 31-32, page 309:

     Hāi waz nît tevrêde täus […]

     He was not content at home […]

Inherited from Old High German waz.

waȥ

1. what

Declension of waȥ
nominative	waȥ
genitive	wës
dative	wëm, wëme
accusative	waȥ
instrumental	wiu

• wër (“who”)

• Alemannic German: waas, waa, was, wa (unstressed)
• Central Franconian: wat
• Cimbrian: bas, baz (Luserna)
• Hunsrik: was
• German: was
• Luxembourgish: wat
• Yiddish: וואָס (vos)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “waz”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

• whaz, hwaz, hwat

From Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod. Cognate with Dutch wat, English what, Danish hvad. More at what.

IPA^(key): /was/

waȥ

1. what

Declension of waȥ
nominative	waȥ
genitive	wes
dative	wemu, wemo
accusative	waȥ
instrumental	wiu

• wer (“who”)

• Middle High German: waz, wat
  • Alemannic German: waas, waa, was, wa (unstressed)
  • Central Franconian: wat
  • Cimbrian: bas, baz (Luserna)
  • Hunsrik: was
  • German: was
  • Luxembourgish: wat
  • Yiddish: וואָס (vos)

1. Joseph Wright, 'An Old High German Primer, Second Edition'

• IPA^(key): /ˈvas/
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: waz

waz f

1. genitive plural of waza

waz

1. Alternative form of waas
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 12-14:

     az avare ye trad dicke londe yer name waz ee-kent var ee vriene o' livertie, an He fo brake ye neckarès o' zlaves.

     for before your foot pressed the soil, your name was known to us as the friend of liberty, and he who broke the fetters of the slave.

• 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 114