wæge

• wēġe

From Proto-West Germanic *waigī. Cognate with Old Norse veig (“strong drink; draught”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwæː.je/

wǣġe n

1. cup, flagon

Strong ja-stem:

• bǣdewēġ
• dēaþwēġe
• ealuwǣġe (“ale-cup”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈwæː.je/

wǣġe m

1. alternative form of wǣġ

From the same root as wǣġ f (“weight”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈwæː.je/

wǣġe f (nominative plural wǣġan)

1. a balance, scales
   • c. 994, attributed to Ælfric of Eynsham, On the Year

     Ǣlċe mōnað hēo yrnð under ān þǣra tācna. Ān þǣra tācna ys ġehāten aries, ꝥ is ramm; oðer taurus, ꝥ is fearr; ðridda gemini, ꝥ synd ġetwisan; fēorða cancer, ꝥ is crabba; fīfta leo; syxta virgo, ꝥ is mǣden; seofoða libra, ꝥ is pund oððe wǣġe; eahtoðe scorpius, ꝥ is þrōwend; nigoða is sagittarius, ꝥ is sċytta; teoða ys capricornus, ꝥ is buccan horn, oððe bucca; endlyfta is aquarius, ꝥ is wæter-gyte, oððe þe þe wæter ġyt; twelfte is pisces, ꝥ synd fixas.

     Each month runs under one of the signs [of the Zodiac]. The first of the signs is called aries, that is "ram"; the second is taurus, that is "bull"; the third is gemini, that is "twins"; the fourth is cancer, that is "crab"; the fifth is lion; the sixth is virgo, that is "virgin"; the seventh is libra, that is "pound" or "scales"; eighth is scorpious, that is "scorpion"; ninth is sagittarius, that is "shooter"; tenth is capricornus, that is "he-goat's horn" or "he-goat"; eleventh is aquarius, that is "pouring water" or "one that pours water"; twelfth is pisces, that is "fishes."

   • c. 1085-1099 [c. 995], Ælfric of Eynsham, “De Numero”, in Aelfric's Grammar^[1]:

     ⁊ ælc þæra ðinga þe man wihð on wægan oððe met on fate næfð heora nan menigfeald getel

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Weak n-stem:

Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “wǽge”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.