wawan

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• IPA^(key): /wa.wan/
• Rhymes: -wan
• Hyphenation: wa‧wan

wawan

1. opponent

• “wawan”, in Javanese-Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Jawa-Indonesia] (in Javanese), Yogyakarta, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta Special [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta], 2023.

From Proto-West Germanic *wāan, from Proto-Germanic *wēaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wḗh₁ti, from *h₂weh₁-. Cognate with Old Saxon wāian and Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌰𐌽 (waian), and more distantly with Old Church Slavonic вѣꙗти (vějati), Ancient Greek ἄημι (áēmi) and Sanskrit वाति (vāti).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɑː.wɑn/

wāwan

1. to blow, be moved by the wind
   • Exeter Book, riddle 40

     hnesċre iċ eom micle halsrefēþre,
     sēo hēr on winde wǣweð on lyfte.

     I am much softer than down feathers
     which are blown about by the wind in the air.

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “wāwan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

wawan

1. only