wasp
English
/wɒsp/, /wɑsp/, /wæsp/
noun
Definitions
- Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
- (entomology) Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
- A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English wasp inherited from Old English wæsp inherited from Proto-Germanic *wapsō (wasp) derived from Proto-Indo-European *wobʰseh₂ (wasp).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wobʰseh₂
Gloss
wasp
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiwasp English
- waspdom English
- wasphood English
- waspie English
- waspily English
- waspish English
- waspishly English
- waspishness English
- waspless English
- wasplike English
- waspling English
- waspy English
- wood English
- woodwasp English
- vespa Latin
- Wespe German
- Wespennest German
- Wespenstachel German
- Wespentaille German
- vespa Italian
- vespaio Italian
- vespeto Italian
- vespiere Italian
- bladwesp Dutch, Flemish
- mierwesp Dutch, Flemish
- sluipwesp Dutch, Flemish
- wesp Dutch, Flemish
- wespendief Dutch, Flemish
- wespennest Dutch, Flemish
- wespenspin Dutch, Flemish
- wespentaille Dutch, Flemish
- wespspin Dutch, Flemish
- zaagwesp Dutch, Flemish
- guêpe French
- vespa Spanish, Castilian
- *Heu- Proto-Indo-European
- *webʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wobʰseh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *wobʰséh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *wapsō Proto-Germanic
- *wepsō- Proto-Germanic
- wæps Old English
- wæsp Old English
- wasp Middle English
- hveps Danish
- hvepsetalje Danish
- *osa Proto-Slavic
- vespo Esperanto
- vespa Serbo-Croatian
- wespe Middle Dutch
- wefsa Old High German
- vespo Ido
- wesp Afrikaans
- wefse Middle High German
- wespe Middle High German
- arëz Albanian
- bèspa Cimbrian
- Wespi Alemannic German
- *wespa Frankish
- *waps Old Frisian
- *aunā Proto-Albanian
- waswasi Sranan Tongo
- wobse Old Prussian