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wan-

prefix
/wɒn/

Etymology

From Middle English wan-, from Old English wan-, from Proto-West Germanic *wana-, from Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“lacking, missing, deficient”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to be lacking, be empty”).

  1. derived from *h₁weh₂-✻ — “to be lacking, be empty”
  2. derived from *wanaz✻ — “lacking, missing, deficient”
  3. inherited from *wana-✻
  4. inherited from wan-
  5. inherited from wan-

Definitions

  1. Preceding nouns and adjectives with the sense “bad”, “un-”.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wan-. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA