Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAny of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet. · Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila). · Any of the members of the family Vespidae. · A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspishly.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂ Proto-Germanic *wapsō Proto-West Germanic *wapsu Old English wæps Middle English wasp English wasp Inherited from Middle English wappes, waps, wasp, waspe, from Old English wæfs, wæps, wæsp, from Proto-West Germanic *wapsu, from Proto-Germanic *wapsō (“wasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂ (“wasp”), from *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”), referring to the insect's woven nests. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian wesp (“wasp”), Saterland Frisian Häspe (“wasp”), West Frisian waps (“wasp”), Alemannic German Wespi (“wasp”), Bavarian Weps, Wepsn (“wasp”), Cimbrian bèspa (“wasp”), Dutch and Vilamovian wesp (“wasp”), German Wespe (“wasp”), Low German Weps, Wepse (“wasp”), Yiddish וועספּ (vesp), וועספּע (vespe, “wasp”), Danish hveps (“wasp”), Norwegian Bokmål veps (“wasp”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvefs (“wasp”); also Cornish goghi (“wasp”), Irish foich, foiche, puch (“wasp”), Welsh gwchi (“drone”), Latin vespa (“wasp”), Greek ανυφαίνω (anyfaíno), υφαίνω (yfaíno, “to weave”), Albanian vej (“to weave”), Latvian lapsene (“wasp”), Lithuanian vapsvà (“wasp”), Old Prussian wobse (“wasp”), Belarusian аса́ (asá, “wasp”), Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian оса́ (osá, “wasp”), Czech vosa (“wasp”), Polish, Slovene, and Slovak osa (“wasp”), Serbo-Croatian о̀са, òsa (“wasp”), Armenian մոզ (moz, “a kind of fly that bites horses and cattle”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬡𐬲𐬀𐬐𐬀 (vaβžaka, “scorpion”), Central Kurdish مۆز (moz, “gadfly, horsefly”), Mazanderani ماز (mâz, “fly”), Northern Kurdish moz (“wasp; gadfly, horsefly; bee; bumblebee”), Persian بوز (bavz / bowz, “wasp”), Tocharian A wäp- (“to weave”), Tocharian B wāp- (“to weave”), Sanskrit उभ्नाति (ubhnāti, “to hurt, kill; to cover”). Metathesis of /s/ and /p/ was both a process of some generality within English (compare grasp from Middle English grapsen, and—affecting other plosives—ascian ~ acsian (“to ask”)) and common in the reflexes of *wóps-eh₂ (“wasp”) in particular, as the aforementioned Germanic cognates (and non-Germanic cognates like Latin vespa) evince.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionwappesenm
- Inherited-form mentionwæfsang
- Inherited-form mention*wapsugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*wapsōgem-pro · wasp
- Derivation mention*wóbʰseh₂ine-pro · wasp
- Cognate mentionwespfrr · wasp
- Cognate mentionHäspestq · wasp
- Cognate mentionwapsfy · wasp
- Cognate mentionWespigsw · wasp
- Cognate mentionWepsbar
- Cognate mentionbèspacim · wasp
- Cognate mentionWespede · wasp
- Cognate mentionWepsnds
- Cognate mentionוועספּyi
- Cognate mentionhvepsda · wasp
- Cognate mentionvepsnb · wasp
- Cognate mentionkvefsnn · wasp
- Cognate mentiongoghikw · wasp
- Cognate mentionfoichga
- Cognate mentiongwchicy · drone
- Cognate mentionvespala · wasp
- Cognate mentionανυφαίνωel
- Cognate mentionvejsq · to weave
- Cognate mentionlapsenelv · wasp
- Cognate mentionvapsvàlt · wasp
- Cognate mentionwobseprg · wasp
- Cognate mentionаса́be · wasp
- Cognate mentionvosacs · wasp
- Cognate mentionо̀саsh
- Cognate mentionմոզhy · a kind of fly that bites horses and cattle
- Cognate mention𐬬𐬀𐬡𐬲𐬀𐬐𐬀ae · scorpion
- Cognate mentionمۆزckb · gadfly, horsefly
- Cognate mentionمازmzn · fly
- Cognate mentionmozkmr · wasp; gadfly, horsefly; bee; bumblebee
- Cognate mentionبوزfa · wasp
- Cognate mentionwäp-xto · to weave
- Cognate mentionwāp-txb · to weave
- Cognate mentionउभ्नातिsa · to hurt, kill; to cover
- Cognate mentionvespala
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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},
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},
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"name": "cog",
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"1": "sa",
"2": "उभ्नाति",
"t": "to hurt, kill; to cover"
},
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