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haw

/ˈhɔː/HAW
/ˈhɔ/HAW

Meaninga hedge, an enclosure

Common meaning: the fruit of the hawthorn

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√KAK‘surround, gird’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 42, p. 731 · scan
  2. Old EnglishhagasourceB&T
  3. Middle Englishhawesource
  4. Englishhaw‘the fruit of the hawthorn’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Old English haga ‘a hedge, an enclosure’.

Did you know (Haw is a…): our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry HAW, p. 258 · dictionary scan

Did you know (A haw was…): our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry HAW, p. 258 · dictionary scan; Bosworth & Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898), entry haga, p. 504 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • haga Old English “a hedge, an enclosure”

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