wa la wa in Old English

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      ],
      "text": "Scots: walawa, wallawa"
    },
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Oh woe! That is sad",
          "roman": "Wa la wa! Þæt is sarlic",
          "text": "731, Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, 1722 edition prepared by John Smith, p. 501",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "alas, oh woe"
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/wɑː lɑː wɑː/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wa la wa"
}

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    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "weylawey"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: weylawey",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: weylawey"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sco",
            "2": "walawa",
            "3": "wallawa"
          },
          "expansion": "Scots: walawa, wallawa",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scots: walawa, wallawa"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
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          "expansion": "(archaic)",
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      "text": "English: welaway, wellaway (archaic)"
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      "form": "wā lā wā",
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      "examples": [
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          "english": "Oh woe! That is sad",
          "roman": "Wa la wa! Þæt is sarlic",
          "text": "731, Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, 1722 edition prepared by John Smith, p. 501",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "alas, oh woe"
      ],
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        [
          "alas",
          "alas"
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          "woe",
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/wɑː lɑː wɑː/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wa la wa"
}

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"wa la wa" meaning in Old English

Interjection