waþ

Old English

Alternative forms
  • ƿāþ – wynn spelling

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *waiþō (“hunt, pasture, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue, suppress”). Cognate with German Weide (“pasture”) and Icelandic veiði (“hunting”).

Noun

wāþ f

  1. wandering
  2. hunting, chase

Declension
Declension of waþ (strong ō-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative wāþ wāþa, wāþe
accusative wāþe wāþa, wāþe
genitive wāþe wāþa
dative wāþe wāþum

Descendants
  • Middle English: wathe, waith, wayth

References
  • wāþ in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
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