Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To wait for. · To expect. · To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for. · To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.
A waiting for; ambush. · Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.
From Middle English awaiten, from Old Northern French awaitier (“to lie in wait for, watch, observe”), originally especially with a hostile sense; itself from a- (“to”) + waitier (“to watch”). More at English wait.
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