waz

waz

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

• 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, volume 31-32, page 309:

   Hāi waz nît tevrêde täus […]

   He was not content at home […]

• 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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /vas/
• 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, line 13:

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

     your name was known to us as the friend of liberty, and he who broke the fetters of the slave.

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 114