wange
Middle English
Noun
wange (plural wanges)
- cheek; jaw
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- Our manciple, I hope he wil be deed,
Swa werkes ay the wanges in his heed.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Old English
Etymology 1
From Proto-West Germanic *wangā, from Proto-Germanic *wangô (“cheek”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenǵ- (“neck, cheek”). More at English wang.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwɑn.ɡe/, [ˈwɑŋ.ɡe]
Noun
wange n
Usage notes
Ēage, ēare, and wange are the only three neuter nouns regularly declined as weak nouns in Old English. However, unlike the former two, wange sometimes displays strong forms, either of the masculine or the feminine strong declension. Both possible declensions are given below.
Declension
Weak:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | wange | wangan |
| accusative | wange | wangan |
| genitive | wangan | wangena |
| dative | wangan | wangum |
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | wange | wangas, wonge, wonga |
| accusative | wange | wangas, wonge, wonga |
| genitive | wonges | wonga |
| dative | wange | wangum |
Descendants
References
- Alan Campbell (1962) chapter XI, in Old English Grammar[1], Oxford, Clarendon Press, B, page 249, §618
Etymology 2
Noun
wange
- dative singular of wang
Ternate
Etymology
Cognate with Sahu wangere (“day”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈwa.ŋe]
Noun
wange
- day
- mawange ― the other day
- the sun
- Synonym: wange malako (literally “eye of the day”)
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh