wane

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /weɪn/
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• rhymes with -eɪn
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• homophone: wain
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• homophone: Wain
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• homophone: Waine
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• homophone: Wayne (all pane–pain merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: W EY1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English wane, from Old English wana (“defect, shortage”), from Proto-West Germanic *wanō, from Proto-Germanic *wanô, from Proto-Indo-European *h1weh2- (“to leave, abandon; empty, deserted”). Cognates See also wan-, want, and waste. Compare also Dutch waan (“insanity”) and German Wahn (“insanity”) deprecated defect, Old Norse vanr (“lacking”) ( > Danish prefix van-, only found in compounds), Latin vanus, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐍃 (wans, “missing, lacking”), Albanian vonë (“late, futile, mentally retarded”), Armenian ունայն (unayn, “empty”), Old Saxon and Old High German wanon (“to decrease”), Modern Dutch weinig (“a few”), Modern German weniger (“less”), comparative of wenig (“few”) (-ig being a derivate suffix; -er the suffix of comparatives). Doublet of vain, vaunt, vaniloquent, vast, vacuum, vacant, vacate, which are Latin-derived, via the PIE root.

From Scots wean.

From Middle English wōne, wāne (“dwelling," "custom”), of unclear origins, compare wont.

From Middle English wanen, wanien, from Old English wanian, wonian, from Proto-West Germanic *wanōn, from Proto-Germanic *wanōną.

74 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: намаляване (namaljavane) — gradual diminution
• Finnish: hiipuminen — gradual diminution
• French: déclin — gradual diminution
• Latin: decresco — gradual diminution
• Russian: у́быль (úbylʹ) — gradual diminution
• Russian: убыва́ние (ubyvánije) — gradual diminution
• Russian: спад (spad) — gradual diminution
• Russian: упа́док (upádok) — gradual diminution
• Finnish: väheneminen — lunar phase
• French: déclin — lunar phase
• Lithuanian: delčia — lunar phase
• Russian: уще́рб (uščérb) — lunar phase
• Russian: убыва́ние (ubyvánije) — lunar phase
• Scottish Gaelic: eàrr-dhubh — lunar phase
• Spanish: menguante de la Luna — lunar phase
• Finnish: loppu — end of a period
• Finnish: päättyminen — end of a period
• French: déclin — end of a period
• Finnish: vajaasärmä — rounded corner
• French: flache — rounded corner
• German: Fehlkante — rounded corner
• Russian: обзо́л (obzól) — rounded corner
• Welsh: pefel — rounded corner
• Bulgarian: намалявам (namaljavam) — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Bulgarian: чезна (čezna) — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Catalan: minvar — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Danish: svinde — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Dutch: tanen — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Finnish: hiipua — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• French: décliner — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• German: schwinden — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Māori: riko — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Māori: roku — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Māori: roroku — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Polish: blednąć — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Polish: zblednąć — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Russian: убыва́ть (ubyvátʹ) — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Russian: убы́ть (ubýtʹ) — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Spanish: menguar — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Spanish: amenguar — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Swedish: avta — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Ukrainian: слабшати (slabšaty) — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Ukrainian: спадати (spadaty) — to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.
• Bulgarian: гасна (gasna) — of light: to dim
• Finnish: himmetä — of light: to dim
• Finnish: himmentyä — of light: to dim
• Bulgarian: намалявам (namaljavam) — of the Moon, to become less visible
• Finnish: vähetä — of the Moon, to become less visible
• French: décroître — of the Moon, to become less visible
• German: abnehmen — of the Moon, to become less visible
• Irish: téigh ar gcúl — of the Moon, to become less visible
• Italian: decrescere — of the Moon, to become less visible
• Japanese: 欠ける (kakeru) — of the Moon, to become less visible
• Māori: tōriwha — of the Moon, to become less visible
• Māori: roku — of the Moon, to become less visible
• Māori: roroku — of the Moon, to become less visible
• Norwegian Bokmål: minke — of the Moon, to become less visible
• Norwegian Nynorsk: minka — of the Moon, to become less visible
• Norwegian Nynorsk: minke — of the Moon, to become less visible
• Portuguese: minguar — of the Moon, to become less visible
• Spanish: menguar — of the Moon, to become less visible
• Bulgarian: приближавам се към края си (približavam se kǎm kraja si) — of a time period, to come to an end
• Finnish: päättyä — of a time period, to come to an end
• Azerbaijani: tükənmək — to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface
• Azerbaijani: azalmaq — to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface
• Bulgarian: намалявам (namaljavam) — to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface
• Esperanto: malkreski — to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface
• Finnish: vähetä — to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface
• Finnish: hiipua — to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface
• Finnish: supistua — to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface
• French: décroître — to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface
• German: schrumpfen — to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface
• Turkish: tükenmek — to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface
• Ukrainian: меншати (menšaty) — to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface