Symbol

wedCategory:Translingual lemmas#WEDCategory:Translingual symbols#WEDCategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#WEDCategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#WEDCategory:Pages with entries#WEDCategory:Pages with 5 entries#WED

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3Category:ISO 639-3 language code for Wedau.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Wedau terms

Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#WEDCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#WED wedden, weddien, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#WEDCategory:English terms derived from Old English#WED weddian (“to pledge; wed”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#WEDCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#WED *waddjōn, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#WEDCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#WED *wadjōną (“to pledge”), from *wadją (“pledge”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#WED *wedʰ- (“to pledge”).

Cognate with Scots wed, wod, wad (“to wed”), Saterland Frisian wädje (“to bet, wager”), West Frisian wedzje (“to bet, wager”), Low German and Dutch wedden (“to bet”), German wetten (“to bet”), Danish vædde (“to bet”), Swedish vädja (“to appeal”), Icelandic veðja (“to bet”); more distantly, to Sanskrit वधू (vadhū́, “bride”)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#WED. Related also to gage, engage, and wage.

Pronunciation

• enPR: wĕdʹ, IPA^(key): /ˈwɛd/Category:English 1-syllable words#WEDCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#WED

• Audio (US):

  (file)

  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#WED
• Rhymes: -ɛdCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛd#WEDCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛd/1 syllable#WED

Verb

wed (third-person singular simple present weds, present participle wedding, simple past and past participle wed or wedded)Category:English lemmas#WEDCategory:English verbs#WEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#WEDCategory:Pages with entries#WEDCategory:Pages with 5 entries#WED

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#WED) To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.

   The priest wed the couple.Category:English terms with usage examples#WED

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     And Adam, wedded to another Eve,
     Shall live with her.

     Category:English terms with quotations#WED

2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#WED) To take as one's spouse.

   She wed her first love.Category:English terms with usage examples#WED

   • 2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91”, in Rolling Stone:

     In 1989, he wed Playmate Kimberley Conrad, a marriage that ended in 2010. In 2013, he married his younger girlfriend, Crystal Harris, with whom he was still wed at the time of his death.

     Category:English terms with quotations#WED

3. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#WED) To take a spouse.
4. (reciprocalCategory:English reciprocal verbs#WED) To take each other as a spouse.

   They will wed in the summer.Category:English terms with usage examples#WED

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     On the rock above was an inscription in three words. Ayesha translated it. It was `Wedded in Death.' What was the life-story of these two, who, of a truth, were beautiful in their lives, and in their death were not divided?

     Category:English terms with quotations#WED

5. (figuratively, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#WED) To join or commit to, more or less permanently, as if in marriage.

   I'm not wedded to this proposal; suggest an alternative.Category:English terms with usage examples#WED

   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

     Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.

     Category:English terms with quotations#WED

   • 1664, John Tillotson, “Sermon I. The Wisdom of Being Religious. Job XXVIII. 28.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], London: […] B. Aylmer, […]; [a]nd W. Rogers, […], published 1696, →OCLC:

     Men are wedded to their lusts.

     Category:English terms with quotations#WED

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 39:

     […] When each by turns was guide to each,
     ⁠And Fancy light from Fancy caught,
     ⁠And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought,
     Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech: […]

     Category:English terms with quotations#WED

   • 1962 April, “Death from Natural Causes?”, in Modern Railways, page 218:

     It will be a tragedy if further enterprises of this kind—for example, the one proposed between South Wales, Bristol and the South Coast via Salisbury—are now deferred until they, too, are realised too late to make an impact on a public that is too firmly wedded to the roads to be wooed back to the trains.

     Category:English terms with quotations#WED

   • 2008, Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, page 72:

     […] the PPS paper proposed a political doctrine that wedded modernization theory to U.S. support for national security states […]

     Category:English terms with quotations#WED

6. (figurative, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#WED) To take to oneself and support; to espouse.
   • 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:

     They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.

     Category:English terms with quotations#WED

7. (Northern EnglandCategory:Northern England English#WED, ScotlandCategory:Scottish English#WED) To wager, stake, bet, place a bet, make a wager.

   I'd wed my head on that.Category:English terms with usage examples#WED

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Anagrams

• DEW, Dew, dew

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

  Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#WED
• Rhymes: -ɛtCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ɛt#WEDCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ɛt/1 syllable#WED

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

From Middle DutchCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch#WEDCategory:Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch#WED wedde, from a byform of Proto-GermanicCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#WEDCategory:Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic#WED *wadą, whence wad. Closely related with Middle High German wete, wettin f (“drinking place, shallow pond”). The Dutch appears to require a neuter *wadją (though feminine use is also attested), the High German a feminine īn-stem *wadį̄.

Alternative forms

• waase (Mooring)
• weet (Sylt)

Etymology

From Proto-GermanicCategory:North Frisian terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#WEDCategory:North Frisian terms derived from Proto-Germanic#WED *witaną.

Pronunciation

• (Föhr-Amrum) IPA^(key): [vɛd]Category:North Frisian terms with IPA pronunciation#WED

Verb

wedCategory:North Frisian lemmas#WEDCategory:North Frisian verbs#WEDCategory:North Frisian entries with incorrect language header#WEDCategory:Pages with entries#WEDCategory:Pages with 5 entries#WED

1. (Föhr-AmrumCategory:Föhr-Amrum North Frisian#WED) to know

Noun

wed (plural weds)Category:Scots lemmas#WEDCategory:Scots nouns#WEDCategory:Scots entries with incorrect language header#WEDCategory:Pages with entries#WEDCategory:Pages with 5 entries#WED

1. alternative form of wad (“pledge, security”)