"weste" meaning in Middle English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈweːst(ə)/, /ˈwɛst(ə)/
Etymology: From Old English wēste, from Proto-West Germanic *wōstī, from Proto-Germanic *wōstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to desert”). Doublet of weste (“deserted”). Etymology templates: {{etymid|enm|desolate}}, {{inh|enm|ang|wēste}} Old English wēste, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*wōstī}} Proto-West Germanic *wōstī, {{inh|enm|gem-pro||*wōstuz}} Proto-Germanic *wōstuz, {{der|enm|ine-pro|*h₁weh₂-|t=to desert}} Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to desert”), {{doublet|enm|weste|id1=adjective|t1=deserted}} Doublet of weste (“deserted”) Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective||{{{1}}}||{{{2}}}||{{{3}}}|head=}} weste, {{enm-adj}} weste
  1. (chiefly Early Middle English) uncultivated, deserted, desolate Tags: Early-Middle-English Related terms: westen (english: wilderness), westen (english: to devastate)
    Sense id: en-weste-enm-adj-VgzlVTQs Categories (other): Early Middle English, Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 19 18 31 31
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: west, wesste [Ormulum]
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈweːst(ə)/, /ˈwɛst(ə)/
Etymology: From Old English wēste, from Proto-West Germanic *wōstī, from Proto-Germanic *wōstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to desert”). Doublet of weste (“deserted”). Etymology templates: {{etymid|enm|desolate}}, {{inh|enm|ang|wēste}} Old English wēste, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*wōstī}} Proto-West Germanic *wōstī, {{inh|enm|gem-pro||*wōstuz}} Proto-Germanic *wōstuz, {{der|enm|ine-pro|*h₁weh₂-|t=to desert}} Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to desert”), {{doublet|enm|weste|id1=adjective|t1=deserted}} Doublet of weste (“deserted”) Head templates: {{head|enm|noun}} weste
  1. (Early Middle English, rare) wasteland, wilderness Tags: Early-Middle-English, rare
    Sense id: en-weste-enm-noun-7qfnT9Sa Categories (other): Early Middle English, Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 19 18 31 31
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: west, wesste [Ormulum]
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Head templates: {{head|enm|verb}} weste
  1. Alternative form of westen (“to move west”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: westen (extra: to move west)
    Sense id: en-weste-enm-verb-eob1cJ2S Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 19 18 31 31
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

Head templates: {{head|enm|verb}} weste
  1. Alternative form of westen (“to devastate”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: westen (extra: to devastate)
    Sense id: en-weste-enm-verb-LVsqVXDi Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 19 18 31 31
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.