wah

«wah» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: Wow! (for the exclamation); war (for the dialect noun) — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

Wow! (for the exclamation); war (for the dialect noun)

part of speech

interjection (also a noun in Uncle Remus)

meaning for a pupil

In Kipling it is an exclamation of surprise; in Uncle Remus it is a dialect spelling of "war". tree →

how it differs from today

Today "wah" is not a normal English word; it is an exclamation in Kipling and a dialect spelling of "war" in Uncle Remus, where "fo' de wah" means "before the war".

examples

• "Dat ar jug's bin ter wah, mon. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) tree →
• In ole times, 'fo' de wah, I ain't heer tell er no seventy-fi'- year-ole nigger grapplin' wid no meezles. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) tree →
• “Wah!” said Little Toomai, “thou art a big elephant,” and he wagged his fluffy head, quoting his father. “The Government may pay for elephants, but they belong to us mahouts. (The Jungle Book) tree →

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 5 (Torah 0, tales 5, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• wa («wah!», high and long) means wow, said just like in English when something is amazing.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wah» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.