Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc. · The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth. · The end of a period. · A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
From Middle English wane, from Old English wana (“defect, shortage”), from Proto-West Germanic *wanō, from Proto-Germanic *wanô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to leave, abandon; empty, deserted”). Cognates See also wan-, want, and waste. Compare also Dutch waan (“insanity”) and German Wahn (“insanity”) deprecated defect, Old Norse vanr (“lacking”) ( > Danish prefix van-, only found in compounds), Latin vanus, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐍃 (wans, “missing, lacking”), Albanian vonë (“late, futile, mentally retarded”), Armenian ունայն (unayn, “empty”), Old Saxon and Old High German wanon (“to decrease”), Modern Dutch weinig (“a few”), Modern German weniger (“less”), comparative of wenig (“few”) (-ig being a derivate suffix; -er the suffix of comparatives). Doublet of vain, vaunt, vaniloquent, vast, vacuum, vacant, vacate, which are Latin-derived, via the PIE root.
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- Inherited-form mentionwaneenm
- Inherited-form mentionwanaang · defect, shortage
- Inherited-form mention*wanōgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*wanôgem-pro
- Derivation mention*h₁weh₂-ine-pro · to leave, abandon; empty, deserted
- Doublet mentionwan-en
- Doublet mentionwanten
- Doublet mentionwasteen
- Cognate mentionwaannl
- Cognate mentionWahnde
- Cognate mentionvanrnon
- Cognate mentionvanusla
- Cognate mention𐍅𐌰𐌽𐍃got
- Cognate mentionvonësq
- Cognate mentionունայնhy
- Cognate mentionwanongoh
- Cognate mentionweinignl
- Cognate mentionwenigerde
- Doublet mentionvainen
- Doublet mentionvaunten
- Doublet mentionvaniloquenten
- Doublet mentionvasten
- Doublet mentionvacuumen
- Doublet mentionvacanten
- Doublet mentionvacateen
- Root classification mention*h₁weh₂-ine-pro
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