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Wo
Definitions
- 1 A falconer's call to a hawk.
- 2 A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.
- 1 Obsolete spelling of woe. alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Such feeble arms, to work internal wo!"
- 2 A wall. Derbyshire, Northern-England, dialectal
"He stands ahint our wo."
- 3 Initialism of warrant officer. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, the Richard van der Riet Woolley expansion morpheme
- 1 To wall (to build a wall, or build a wall around). Northern-England, dialectal, obsolete, possibly
"[…] “Theer was anudder time, teu, 'at I saw t Park Boggle, in anudder form; bit I wassent seah nart that time, as I was when I'd been fetchen t hogs. I'd been wo-en a gap 'at hed fawn ower o' tudder side o' to Park; […]"
Etymology
Variant of who.
Variant of woe.
From Middle English wough, woh, wouh, from Old English wāh, wāg (“a wall, partition”), from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, twist”). Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch.
From Middle English wough, woh, wouh, from Old English wāh, wāg (“a wall, partition”), from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, twist”). Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch.
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