"was" meaning in Middle English

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      "text": "Yola: waas, was, waz, 'as, as (after Ich)"
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  "etymology_text": "From Old English wæs (first/third person singular indicative past of wesan), from Proto-Germanic *was (first/third person singular indicative past of *wesaną).",
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  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "english": "Thirlwall, who was their commander / was killed there in the struggle / with the greatest part of his men; / the rest fled very frightened.",
          "ref": "c. 1375, “Book VI”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß […] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2), Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 21, recto, lines 431-434; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:",
          "text": "Thyꝛwall þ[at] was þ[air] capitain / Wes þ[air] in þe baꝛgain slain / ⁊ off his men þe maſt p[ar]ty / Ϸe laue fled full affrayitly",
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        "(dialectal) second-person singular past indicative of been"
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        "(dialectal) plural past indicative of been"
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  "word": "was"
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          "extra": "“whose”, genitive",
          "word": "whos"
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          "text": "Thyꝛwall þ[at] was þ[air] capitain / Wes þ[air] in þe baꝛgain slain / ⁊ off his men þe maſt p[ar]ty / Ϸe laue fled full affrayitly",
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        "(dialectal) second-person singular past indicative of been"
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        "(dialectal) plural past indicative of been"
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