wade

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• homophone: wade
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• homophone: weighed
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• homophone: wheyed
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• Scotland: /wed/
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• homophone: wheyed (pane–pain merger, all not in Scotland)
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From Old English wæd (“a ford”).

From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-West Germanic *wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną (“to go, pass through”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh2dh- (“to go”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian waadje (“to wade”), West Frisian wâdzje (“to wade”), Dutch waden (“to wade”), German Low German waden (“to wade”), German waten (“to wade”), Danish vade (“to wade”), Swedish vada (“to wade”), Icelandic vaða (“to wade”), and Latin vādō (“go, walk; rush”).

56 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: газене (gazene) — act of wading
• Bulgarian: прегазване (pregazvane) — act of wading
• Finnish: kahluu — act of wading
• Italian: guado — act of wading
• Portuguese: vadeação — act of wading
• Portuguese: vadeamento — act of wading
• Spanish: vadeo — act of wading
• Bashkir: кисеү (kisew) — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Bulgarian: газя (gazja) — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Chinese Mandarin: 涉水 (shèshuǐ) — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Czech: brodit se — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Old Czech: břísti — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Danish: vade — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Dutch: waden — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Esperanto: vadi — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Finnish: kahlata — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Finnish: rämpiä — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Finnish: tarpoa — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• French: patauger — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Galician: vadear — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• German: waten — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Hungarian: átgázol — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Ido: vadar — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Italian: guadare — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Italian: procedere a stento — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Italian: avanzare lentamente — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Kyrgyz: кеч- (kec-) — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Latvian: brist — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Lithuanian: bristi — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Mansaka: lakad — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Māori: kau — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Māori: kautū — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Norman: pataûgi — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Norwegian: vade — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Norwegian: vasse — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Polabian: bradĕt — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Polish: brnąć — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Portuguese: vadear — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Russian: брести (bresti) — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Scottish Gaelic: grunnaich — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Serbo-Croatian: probijati se — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Serbo-Croatian: gacati — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Spanish: vadear — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Spanish: esguazar — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Swedish: vada — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Turkish: yürümek — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Unami: chuski — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Vietnamese: lội — to walk through water or something that impedes progress
• Finnish: rämpiä — to progress with difficulty
• Finnish: tarpoa — to progress with difficulty
• Hungarian: átgázol — to progress with difficulty
• Hungarian: átvergődik — to progress with difficulty
• Russian: пробираться (probiratʹsja) — to progress with difficulty
• Russian: продираться (prodiratʹsja) — to progress with difficulty
• Serbo-Croatian: gacati — to progress with difficulty
• Serbo-Croatian: probijati se — to progress with difficulty