"weg" meaning in Old English

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ċiricweġ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ealne weġ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "gangweġ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hēafodweġ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hēahweġ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "healfweġ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hereweġ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Iringes weġ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Norþweġ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "onweġ"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "wey"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: wey, wei, weie, wai, way\nEnglish: way\nScots: wey\nYola: wye, waie",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: wey, wei, weie, wai, way\nEnglish: way\nScots: wey\nYola: wye, waie"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*weǵʰ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "inh": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*weg"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *weg",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*wegaz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wegaz",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ofs",
        "2": "wei"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Frisian wei",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "osx",
        "2": "weg"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Saxon weg",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "odt",
        "2": "weg"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Dutch weg",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "weg"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German weg",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "vegr"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse vegr",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃 (wigs)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fy",
        "2": "wei"
      },
      "expansion": "West Frisian wei",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "weg"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch weg",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "vegur"
      },
      "expansion": "Icelandic vegur",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fo",
        "2": "vegur"
      },
      "expansion": "Faroese vegur",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "vej"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish vej",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nb",
        "2": "vei"
      },
      "expansion": "vei",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "väg"
      },
      "expansion": "Swedish väg",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz.\nCognates include Old Frisian wei, Old Saxon weg, Old Dutch weg, Old High German weg, Old Norse vegr, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃 (wigs). Compare West Frisian wei, Dutch weg, Icelandic vegur, Faroese vegur, Danish vej, Norwegian vei, and Swedish väg, which are all still the main word for both \"way\" and \"road\" in their respective languages.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "weġ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wegas",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-decl-noun-a-m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weġ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wegas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weġ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wegas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weġes",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wega",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weġe",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wegum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "nominative plural",
        "4": "wegas",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "weġ",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "weġ m (nominative plural wegas)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "wegas",
        "head": "weġ"
      },
      "expansion": "weġ m (nominative plural wegas)",
      "name": "ang-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "weġ",
        "2": "weg"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun-a-m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "weġ",
        "2": "wegas",
        "3": "weġ",
        "4": "wegas",
        "5": "weġes",
        "6": "wega",
        "7": "weġe",
        "8": "wegum",
        "num": "",
        "title": "",
        "type": "strong a-stem"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Show me the way.",
          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy\nĠetǣċ mē þone weġ.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "We can't go back the way we came.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric of Eynsham, \"The Epiphany of the Lord\"\nWē ne magon ġeċierran þæs weġes þe wē cōmon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "He brought me back the same way we came before.",
          "text": "late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History\nHē lǣdde mē eft þȳ selfan weġe þe wit ǣr cōmon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "They all went safe and sound on their way home.",
          "text": "The Life of Saint Margaret\nEall hīe hāl and ġesund on heora weġe hām ġewenton.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, year 888",
          "roman": "Queen Æthelswith, who was King Alfred's sister, died on the way to Rome.",
          "text": "Æðelswīþ cwēn, sēo wæs Ælfrēdes sweostor cyninges, forþfērde be Rōme weġe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Let's send spies who can survey the land and tell us which way to go and to what cities.",
          "roman": "Uton sendan sċēaweras þæt sċēawiġen þæt land and cȳðen ūs on hwelcne weġ wē faran sċulon and tō hwelcum burgum.",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Deuteronomy 1:22",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Now I was in the right way in my inward thought, but better will it be that I go out of this town again lest I be too greatly bewildered, and so may not come to my comrades who erewhile sent me here; certainly I have here perceived that the over anxiety of my mind hath here seized me, so that I know not very certainly why I thus act.",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"The Seven Sleepers\"\nnu ic wæs of þam rihtan wege mines ingeþances ac betere hit bið þæt ic eft fare ut of þysum porte ðylæs þe ic to swiðe dwelige and for-þy þonne ne cume to minum geferum þe me ær hyder sendon; gewislice ic her ongyten hæbbe þæt me hæfð gelæht fæste mines modes oferstige þæt ic nat na forgeare hu ic hit þus macige.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "way"
      ],
      "id": "en-weg-ang-noun-RMXnBx86",
      "links": [
        [
          "way",
          "way"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "ang",
          "name": "Roads",
          "orig": "ang:Roads",
          "parents": [
            "Road transport",
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "through dark roads",
          "text": "10th century, Kentish gloss of the Book of Proverbs\nþurh þīestre wegas",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Wherever the road leads, we will go.",
          "roman": "Swā swā sē weġ liġþ, wē faraþ.",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Numbers 21:22",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "road"
      ],
      "id": "en-weg-ang-noun-NiooSVLT",
      "links": [
        [
          "road",
          "road"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/wej/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "wœg — Northumbrian"
    }
  ],
  "word": "weg"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old English lemmas",
    "Old English masculine a-stem nouns",
    "Old English masculine nouns",
    "Old English nouns",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weǵʰ-",
    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "ċiricweġ"
    },
    {
      "word": "ealne weġ"
    },
    {
      "word": "gangweġ"
    },
    {
      "word": "hēafodweġ"
    },
    {
      "word": "hēahweġ"
    },
    {
      "word": "healfweġ"
    },
    {
      "word": "hereweġ"
    },
    {
      "word": "Iringes weġ"
    },
    {
      "word": "Norþweġ"
    },
    {
      "word": "onweġ"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "wey"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: wey, wei, weie, wai, way\nEnglish: way\nScots: wey\nYola: wye, waie",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: wey, wei, weie, wai, way\nEnglish: way\nScots: wey\nYola: wye, waie"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*weǵʰ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "inh": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*weg"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *weg",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*wegaz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wegaz",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ofs",
        "2": "wei"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Frisian wei",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "osx",
        "2": "weg"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Saxon weg",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "odt",
        "2": "weg"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Dutch weg",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "weg"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German weg",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "vegr"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse vegr",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃 (wigs)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fy",
        "2": "wei"
      },
      "expansion": "West Frisian wei",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "weg"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch weg",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "vegur"
      },
      "expansion": "Icelandic vegur",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fo",
        "2": "vegur"
      },
      "expansion": "Faroese vegur",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "vej"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish vej",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nb",
        "2": "vei"
      },
      "expansion": "vei",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "väg"
      },
      "expansion": "Swedish väg",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz.\nCognates include Old Frisian wei, Old Saxon weg, Old Dutch weg, Old High German weg, Old Norse vegr, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃 (wigs). Compare West Frisian wei, Dutch weg, Icelandic vegur, Faroese vegur, Danish vej, Norwegian vei, and Swedish väg, which are all still the main word for both \"way\" and \"road\" in their respective languages.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "weġ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wegas",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-decl-noun-a-m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weġ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wegas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weġ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wegas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weġes",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wega",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weġe",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wegum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "nominative plural",
        "4": "wegas",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "weġ",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "weġ m (nominative plural wegas)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "wegas",
        "head": "weġ"
      },
      "expansion": "weġ m (nominative plural wegas)",
      "name": "ang-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "weġ",
        "2": "weg"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun-a-m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "weġ",
        "2": "wegas",
        "3": "weġ",
        "4": "wegas",
        "5": "weġes",
        "6": "wega",
        "7": "weġe",
        "8": "wegum",
        "num": "",
        "title": "",
        "type": "strong a-stem"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Show me the way.",
          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy\nĠetǣċ mē þone weġ.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "We can't go back the way we came.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric of Eynsham, \"The Epiphany of the Lord\"\nWē ne magon ġeċierran þæs weġes þe wē cōmon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "He brought me back the same way we came before.",
          "text": "late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History\nHē lǣdde mē eft þȳ selfan weġe þe wit ǣr cōmon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "They all went safe and sound on their way home.",
          "text": "The Life of Saint Margaret\nEall hīe hāl and ġesund on heora weġe hām ġewenton.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, year 888",
          "roman": "Queen Æthelswith, who was King Alfred's sister, died on the way to Rome.",
          "text": "Æðelswīþ cwēn, sēo wæs Ælfrēdes sweostor cyninges, forþfērde be Rōme weġe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Let's send spies who can survey the land and tell us which way to go and to what cities.",
          "roman": "Uton sendan sċēaweras þæt sċēawiġen þæt land and cȳðen ūs on hwelcne weġ wē faran sċulon and tō hwelcum burgum.",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Deuteronomy 1:22",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Now I was in the right way in my inward thought, but better will it be that I go out of this town again lest I be too greatly bewildered, and so may not come to my comrades who erewhile sent me here; certainly I have here perceived that the over anxiety of my mind hath here seized me, so that I know not very certainly why I thus act.",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"The Seven Sleepers\"\nnu ic wæs of þam rihtan wege mines ingeþances ac betere hit bið þæt ic eft fare ut of þysum porte ðylæs þe ic to swiðe dwelige and for-þy þonne ne cume to minum geferum þe me ær hyder sendon; gewislice ic her ongyten hæbbe þæt me hæfð gelæht fæste mines modes oferstige þæt ic nat na forgeare hu ic hit þus macige.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "way"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "way",
          "way"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations",
        "ang:Roads"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "through dark roads",
          "text": "10th century, Kentish gloss of the Book of Proverbs\nþurh þīestre wegas",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Wherever the road leads, we will go.",
          "roman": "Swā swā sē weġ liġþ, wē faraþ.",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Numbers 21:22",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "road"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "road",
          "road"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/wej/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "wœg — Northumbrian"
    }
  ],
  "word": "weg"
}