Noun: wain
Sample Sentences
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"The Hay Wain" is a famous painting by John Constable.
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Many roads and tracks crossed the green fields, and there was much coming and going: wains moving in lines towards the Great Gate, and others passing out. [1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Minas Tirith”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings […], New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, book V, page 40:]
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And the hill-king spake to his footpages twain.
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Time with me goes slow. —
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"Put ye the gray pacers now unto the wain,"
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But that grief is heavy I know. [1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 175:]
Nouns inflected like wain
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English wayn, from Old English wæġn, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos, from *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”). Doublet of wagon, borrowed from Middle Dutch.
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with West Frisian wein, Dutch wagen, German Wagen, Danish vogn, Norwegian vogn, Swedish vagn. See: Middle English Nouns '
wayn', Dutch Nouns '
wagen', German Nouns '
Wagen', Danish Nouns '
vogn', Swedish Nouns '
vagn'.
Verbs referencing "wain"
German Nouns
Wagen, Danish Nouns
vogn.