wan-
English
/wɒn/
prefix
Definitions
- (no longer glossary) Preceding nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘bad, un-’
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English wan- inherited from Old English wan- inherited from Proto-Germanic *wanaz (lacking, deficient, missing, absent) derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (empty, be lacking, be empty, abandon, leave, wasted, lack, deserted).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₁weh₂-
Gloss
empty, be lacking, be empty, abandon, leave, wasted, lack, deserted
Concept
Semantic Field
Quantity
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- devastate English
- evanesce English
- evanescere Latin
- evanesco, evanescere Latin
- vacans Latin
- vacantia Latin
- vacuitās Latin
- vacuus Latin
- vacātus Latin
- vanus Latin
- vastus Latin
- vocitus Latin
- vānitas Latin
- vānus Latin
- ēvānēscēns Latin
- *h₁uh₂nós Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁weh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂weh₁yu- Proto-Indo-European
- *wāno- Proto-Indo-European
- van- Norwegian Bokmål
- *wanatōną Proto-Germanic
- *wanaz Proto-Germanic
- *wanōną Proto-Germanic
- *wōstinī Proto-Germanic
- van- Swedish
- van- Norwegian Nynorsk
- wan- Old English
- wansceaft Old English
- wēstiġ Old English
- wan- Middle English
- van- Old Norse
- vanbúinn Old Norse
- vanr Old Norse
- van- Icelandic
- fás Old Irish
- 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐍃 Gothic
- wan- Old Saxon
- *wakos Proto-Italic
- wan- Scots
- *wōstī Frankish