Old English · noun
weg
Normalised weġ
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /wej/
- Syllables
- wej (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- way
Meaning
-
way
Ġetǣċ mē þone weġ.
Show me the way.
late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy -
road
þurh þīestre wegas
through dark roads
10th century, Kentish gloss of the Book of Proverbs
Declension
All forms (6)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz. Cognates include Old Frisian wei, Old Saxon weg, Old Dutch weg, Old High German weg, Old Norse vegr, Gothic (wigs). Compare West Frisian wei, Dutch weg, Icelandic vegur, Faroese vegur, Danish vej, Norwegian vei, and Swedish väg, which are all still the main word for both "way" and "road" in their respective languages.
Descendants
way
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