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Wawe vs Waw - What's the difference?

wawe | waw |

As nouns the difference between wawe and waw

is that wawe is a wave while waw is a wave.

As a verb waw is

to stir; move; wave.

wawe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A wave.
    • (Chaucer)
    (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913) And fro the navele doun al covered was With wawes grene, and brighte as any glas The Kinght's Tale (Chaucer, ll. 1099-1100)

    waw

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) wawen, .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To stir; move; wave.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) wawe, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, water) A (l).
  • * , II.xii:
    • nigh it drawes / All passengers, that none from it can shift: / For whiles they fly that Gulfes deuouring iawes, / They on this rock are rent, and sunck in helplesse wawes .

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . Cognate with Scots (m), (m).

    Alternative forms

    * * (Scotland)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wall

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) . * Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ** Last: ** Next:

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: .

    • Anagrams

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