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wo.

A falconer's call to a hawk.

2 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

intj

  1. A falconer's call to a hawk.

  2. A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.

Where this word comes from

Variant of who.

noun/wo//wɔː/

  1. A wall.

    Derbyshire · Northern-England · dialectal
Where this word comes from

From Middle English wough, woh, wouh, from Old English wāh, wāg (“a wall, partition”), from Proto-West Germanic *waig, from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, twist”). Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch.

verb/wo//wɔː/

  1. To wall (to build a wall, or build a wall around).

    Northern-England · dialectal · obsolete · possibly
Where this word comes from

From Middle English wough, woh, wouh, from Old English wāh, wāg (“a wall, partition”), from Proto-West Germanic *waig, from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, twist”). Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch.

noun

  1. Obsolete spelling of woe.

    alt-of · countable · obsolete · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Variant of woe.

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