wos

See also: WOs, WoS, wós, woš, W.O.s, and Woś

English

Verb

wos

  1. Eye dialect spelling of was.
    • 1876, Edward Everett Hale, “Phillip Nolan's Friends; or, 'Show Your Passports!'”, in Scribner's Monthly, volume XII, number 1, page 20:
      She wos real good to 'em all, she wos, ma'am.

Anagrams

Bavarian

Etymology

Cognate with German was and English what.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /βɔːs/, /βoːs/

Pronoun

wos

  1. what

Catawba

Etymology

The word is related to wus, wuss (“wasp”).

Noun

wos

  1. bee

Javanese

Romanization

wos

  1. Romanization of ꦮꦺꦴꦱ꧀

Lower Sorbian

Noun

wos f (diminutive woska)

  1. Superseded spelling of wós.

Declension
Declension of wos
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative wos wosy wosy
Genitive wosy wosowu wosow
Dative wosy wosoma wosam
Accusative wos wosy wosy
Instrumental wosu wosoma wosami
Locative wosy wosoma wosach

Middle English

Pronoun

wos

  1. Alternative form of whos (“whose”, genitive)

Old English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /woːs/

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *wōs, from Proto-Germanic *wōsą, from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow”). Akin to Middle Low German wose (“foam; froth”), Old English wāse (“marsh; mire”).

Noun

wōs n (nominative plural wōs)

  1. juice, sap; moisture
Declension
Declension of wos (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative wōs wōs
accusative wōs wōs
genitive wōses wōsa
dative wōse wōsum
Descendants
  • Middle English: wos, wose

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Noun

wōs

  1. genitive singular of wōh

Tok Pisin

Noun

wos

  1. sentinel
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