English Explanatory Dictionary

wan-

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prefix
  1. Preceding nouns and adjectives with the sense “bad”, “un-”.

Pronunciation

/wɒn/

Word forms

wan-

Etymology

From Middle English wan-, from Old English wan-, from Proto-West Germanic *wana-, from Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“lacking, missing, deficient”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to be lacking, be empty”).

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