wade

Meanings

1. To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
2. To progress with difficulty.
3. To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading.
4. To gleam intermittently through clouds or mist.
5. To enter recklessly.

1. An act of wading.
2. A ford; a place to cross a river.

1. Obsolete form of woad.

1. A topographic surname from Old English.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade.
4. A number of places in the United States:
5. A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
6. A census-designated place in Jackson County, Mississippi.
7. A town in Cumberland County, North Carolina.
8. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio.
9. Two townships in Illinois, in Clinton County and Jasper County.

Etymology

From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-West Germanic *wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną (“to go, pass through”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (“to go”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian waadje (“to wade”), West Frisian wâdzje (“to wade”), Dutch waden (“to wade”), German Low German waden (“to wade”), German waten (“to wade”), Danish vade (“to wade”), Swedish vada (“to wade”), Icelandic vaða (“to wade”), and Latin vādō (“go, walk; rush”).