Etymology

awag

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Today it means: Wagging. Full definition →

English wag ← Middle English a- ← Old English on
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂en-
  2. Proto-Germanic*an
  3. Proto-West Germanic*ana
  4. Old Englishon
  5. Middle Englishan
  6. Middle Englisha-
  7. Englisha-
  8. Englishwag
  9. English todayawag

From a- + wag.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.