wane

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
2. The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
3. (literary) The end of a period.
4. A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
2. (intransitive) For light to dim or diminish in strength.
3. (intransitive) For the Moon to pass through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
4. (intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.
5. (archaic, intransitive) To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to decrease.

Sinonieme

decline

decrease

decay

diminish

dwindle

lessen

abate

go down

fade

ebb

diminution

sink

perish

fail

peter out

disappear

contract

fall off

incline toward

lacking

flag

decadence

trend toward

darken

be disposed to

be prone to

shrink

reduce

slant

ebbing

lurch

wither

impairment

droop

draw in

decompose

dissolve

collapse

declination

die down

lean

die away

careen

age

incline

die

💀

devolution

fizzle

deterioration

fall

Vertalings

minguar

diminuer

diminuir

schwinden

abnehmen

verminderen

menguar

decrescere

ελαττώνομαι

décliner

kleiner worden

afnemen

minvar

diminuire

dalen

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/weɪn/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: wane

Geërf van Old English: wana

Verwante met Nederlands: waan

Verwante met Duits: Wahn

Verwante met Old Norse: vanr

Verwante met Deens: -

Verwante met Latyn: vanus

Verwante met Goties: 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐍃

Verwante met Albanees: vonë

Verwante met Armeens: ունայն

Verwante met Old Saxon: -

Verwante met Old High German: wanon

Verwante met Nederlands: weinig

Verwante met Duits: weniger

Verwante met Latyn: -

Geërf van Middle English: wanen

Geërf van Old English: wanian

In summary

From Middle English wane, from Old English wana (“defect, shortage”), from Proto-West Germanic *wanō, from Proto-Germanic *wanô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to leave, abandon; empty, deserted”).
Cognates
See also wan-, want, and waste. Compare also Dutch waan (“insanity”) and German Wahn (“insanity”) deprecated defect, Old Norse vanr (“lacking”) ( > Danish prefix van-, only found in compounds), Latin vanus, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐍃 (wans, “missing, lacking”), Albanian vonë (“late, futile, mentally retarded”), Armenian ունայն (unayn, “empty”), Old Saxon and Old High German wanon (“to decrease”), Modern Dutch weinig (“a few”), Modern German weniger (“less”), comparative of wenig (“few”) (-ig being a derivate suffix; -er the suffix of comparatives). Doublet of vain, vaunt, vaniloquent, vast, vacuum, vacant, vacate, which are Latin-derived, via the PIE root.