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DANISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

vaske.

to wash

5 characters2 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

verb
  1. to wash

  2. to shampoo (to wash hair with shampoo)

  3. to launder (to wash; to disguise the source of ill-gotten wealth)

  4. to shuffle (to mix up cards in a random order before a card game)

Where this word comes from

From Old Danish waskæ, from Old Norse vaska (“to wash”), from Proto-Germanic *waskaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wod- (“wet; water”). Cognate with Swedish vaska, German waschen, Old English wæscan (English wash).

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