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Wae vs Wai - What's the difference?

wae | wai |

As nouns the difference between wae and wai

is that wae is woe while wai is a Thai greeting wherein the palms are brought together in front of the face or chest, sometimes accompanied with a bow.

As an initialism WAE

is wireless Application Environment.

As an adverb wai is

why a purposeful misspelling.

As a conjunction wai is

why a purposeful misspelling.

wae

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • (telecommunications) Wireless Application Environment.
  • (computing) Web Application Extension.
  • (US, government) While actually employed.

    • Anagrams

    *

    wai

    English

    Etymology 1

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Thai greeting wherein the palms are brought together in front of the face or chest, sometimes accompanied with a bow.

    • Etymology 2

    Phonetic respelling of why.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (label) why (a purposeful misspelling)

    • Conjunction

    (en-conjunction)
  • (label) why (a purposeful misspelling)

    • Anagrams

    * * ---- ==Aka-Bea==

    Adverb

    (head)
  • indeed

    • References

    * Edward Horace Man, A Dictionary of the South Andaman (Aka-Bea) language (1923) ---- =='Are'are==

    Noun

    (head)
  • fresh water

    • Antonyms

    *

    References

    * Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary ----