adaw

English

Etymology

Verb

adaw (third-person singular simple present adaws, present participle adawing, simple past and past participle adawed)

(obsolete) To subdue; to daunt.
- Edmund Spenser
  He, comming home at undertime, there found / The fayrest creature, that he ever saw, / Sitting beside his mother on the ground; / The sight whereof did greatly him adaw.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for adaw in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Awad, WADA, Wada, da'wa

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

adaw

baby monkey

Middle Welsh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈadau̯/

Verb

adaw

to leave
to allow
to let go

Conjugation

first-person singular present: adawaf, eidawaf
third-person singular preterite: edewis

Descendants

Welsh: adaw, ado

Alternative forms

adav

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈaðau̯/

Verb

aðaw

to promise

Descendants

Welsh: addo

Mutation

Middle Welsh mutation
Radical	Soft	Nasal	H-prothesis
adaw	unchanged	unchanged	hadaw
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle Welsh mutation
Radical	Soft	Nasal	H-prothesis
aðaw	unchanged	unchanged	haðaw
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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