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Wagen.

a wheeled vehicle for transporting anything

5 characters2 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈvaːɡən/[ˈvaːɡŋ̍][ˈʋaː-][-ɡən]
  1. a wheeled vehicle for transporting anything a car, an automobile, a vehicle

    masculine · strong
  2. a wheeled vehicle for transporting anything a railroad car

    masculine · strong
  3. a wheeled vehicle for transporting anything a wagon, a cart (drawn by a person, by horses, by oxen, etc)

    masculine · strong
  4. Dipper: either the Großer Wagen (“Ursa Major”) or Kleiner Wagen (“Ursa Minor”)

    masculine · strong
Where this word comes from

From Middle High German wagen, from Old High German wagan, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn. Cognate with Bavarian Wågn, Dutch wagen, English wain (and wagon, borrowed from Dutch), West Frisian wein, Danish vogn, Swedish vagn. Doublet of Waggon, which was borrowed from English.

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