wain
Significat (English)
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A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
Synonyms
motor-car
Charles’s Wain
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/weɪn/
Etimologia (English)
In summary
From Middle English wayn, from Old English wæġn, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos, from *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”). Doublet of wagon, borrowed from Middle Dutch. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian wein, Dutch wagen, German Wagen, Danish vogn, Norwegian vogn, Swedish vagn. Doublet of wagon, a borrowing from Dutch.
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