Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To carry.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen. · A chariot or similar stately carriage.
From Middle English wayn, from Old English wæġn, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos, from *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”). Doublet of wagon, borrowed from Middle Dutch. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian wein, Dutch wagen, German Wagen, Danish vogn, Norwegian vogn, Swedish vagn.
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