wea

See also: weá, Wea, and WEA

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Wewaw.

Symbol

wea

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Wewaw.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Wewaw terms

Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

From English where.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /weə/

Adverb

wea

1. where

   You know wea?

   Do you know where?

   • 2000, “Matthew 10”, in Joseph Grimes, transl., Da Jesus Book: Hawaii Pidgin New Testament‎^[1], Wycliffe Bible Translators, →ISBN, page 29:

     You know, I sending you guys out jalike sheeps, an you guys goin go wea da wild wolfs stay.

     See, I am sending you out as sheep among [where the wild] wolves [are].

Marshallese

Pronunciation

• (phonetics) IPA^(key): [wɛɑ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /wɛjæɰ/
• Bender phonemes: {weyah}

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English wire.

Noun

wea (causative verb kōwea, construct weain)

1. (alienable) a wire

Etymology 2

Noun

wea

1. a water course in a reef
2. a small passage between ocean and lagoon

References

• Abo, Takaji; Bender Byron W.; Capelle, Alfred; DeBrum, Tony (2009–), “wea”, in Marshallese–English Online Dictionary‎^[2]

Middle English

Noun

wea

1. alternative form of we (“woe”)

Old English

Alternative forms

• wāwa

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *waiwô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wæ͜ɑː/
• Rhymes: -æ͜ɑː

Noun

wēa m

1. misfortune, evil, harm, trouble
   • June, 1967, Frederick George Jones, Jr., The Old English Rune Poem, an Edition, Gainesville, Florida: Univerity of Florida, Ph.D. dissertation, page 75:

     ᚹ ne brūceþ þe can wēana lȳt...

     Joy he has, he who knows little of woe...

2. woe, grief, misery
3. sin, wickedness

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	wēa	wēan
accusative	wēan	wēan
genitive	wēan	wēana
dative	wēan	wēam, wēaum

Derived terms

• wēas
• wēaþearfe

Descendants

• Middle English: we, wee, wea, wæ; wowe

Spanish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈw̝ea/ [ˈw̝e.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: we‧a

Noun

wea f (plural weas)

1. (Chile) alternative form of hueva

Derived terms

• como las weas
• saco wea
• tirarse las weas
• verse las weas

Etymology 2

Likely from huevada, itself a derivation of huevón (meaning a stupid person), the expected spelling is weá with an accent on the letter a representing the actual pronunciation, which is frequently omitted in instant messaging.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w̝eˈa/ [w̝eˈa]
  • Rhymes: -a
• IPA^(key): (spelling pronunciation) /ˈw̝ea/ [ˈw̝e.a]
  • Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: we‧a

Noun

wea f (plural weas)

1. (Chile) alternative form of huevada

Derived terms

• a la wea
• puta la wea
• qué wea