noun · uncountable · rare

wan

дівчина, дівчинка, дівча

девушка, девочка, девчонка

Frau, Mädchen, Mädel

The quality of being wanThe quality of being wan; wanness.

UK/wɒn/US/wɑn/

Meaning

2 senses

(uncountable)The quality of being wan; wanness.
(Ireland)A girl or woman.

More definitions

a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network

Origin

From Middle English wan, wanne (“grey, leaden; pale grey, ashen; blue-black (like a bruise

From Middle English wan, wanne (“grey, leaden; pale grey, ashen; blue-black (like a bruise); dim, faint; dark, gloomy”), from Old English wann (“dark, dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *wannaz (“dark, swart”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Frisian wann, wonn (“dark”). The meaning and sense has been attributed to influence from Proto-Brythonic, Proto-Celtic *wasnos (cf. Welsh gwan. Irish fann).

Eye dialect spelling of one. Sense 2 (“girl or woman”) possibly as a result of the phrase your wan as a counterpart to your man.

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