vaða
Icelandic
/ˈvaːða/
verb-strong
Definitions
- (transitive) to wade
- (intransitive) to rush (forward, in, etc.) heedlessly
- (intransitive) to prattle, to talk nonsense
- (intransitive) to shoal
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse vaða inherited from Proto-Germanic *wadaną.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*wadaną
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *weh₂dʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- va Norwegian Bokmål
- vade Norwegian Bokmål
- *wadaną Proto-Germanic
- va Norwegian Nynorsk
- vada Norwegian Nynorsk
- vade Norwegian Nynorsk
- anwadan Old English
- geondwadan Old English
- gewadan Old English
- oferwadan Old English
- onwadan Old English
- wadan Old English
- þurhwadan Old English
- waden Middle English
- vaða Old Norse
- watan Old High German
- vaða Faroese
- *wadan Old Dutch
- wadan Old Saxon
- vaþa Old Swedish
- veda Westrobothnian