Etymology

wong

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Today it means: A field, meadow, or other such piece of land. Full definition →

Middle English wong ← Old English wang ← Proto-West Germanic *wang
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wong · noun1

  1. Proto-Germanic*wangaz
  2. Proto-West Germanic*wang
  3. Old Englishwang
  4. Middle Englishwong
  5. English todaywong

From Middle English wong, wang, from Old English wong, wang (“a flat surface, plain”), from Proto-West Germanic *wang, from Proto-Germanic *wangaz. Cognate with Danish vang.

wong · verb2

From the pen name Stanford Wong.

wong · noun3

Related to wang.

Wong · proper noun4

From Cantonese, from Chinese: * 王 (wong⁴, “king”). Doublet of Vuong and Wang. * 黃／黄 (wong⁴, “yellow”). Doublet of Huynh and Huang. * 汪 (wong¹).

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*wangaz all →

wang

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