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Wah thoughts.’ The word did not originally contain the secondary meaning ‘want of foundation,’ as is shown by  wân,  wên,  wêns, ‘expectation, hope.’ Hence the derivative , ‘to think, believe, suppose,’  wœnen,  wânnen (from *wânjan), ‘to mean, suppose, hope,’  the   wênjan,  wênan,  wânian. The nominal stem wêni is not related to any terms in non- (Aryan root wê?, ghwê, ghê?), unless it be connected with the root wen, ‘to love,’ from which and  wini, ‘friend,’  van, ‘to love,’ and  venerari, ‘to venerate,’ are derived.   ',, ‘frenzy, madness, delirium.’ It has properly no connection whatever with the preceding word; it first occurs in , and is an imitation of the earlier ', , ‘delirium,’ which is based on wănwitzec, wănwitze,  wănawizzi, , ‘unintelligible, void of understanding.’  is the sole relic of an old method of forming compounds with wăna-, ‘wanting,’ which is especially preserved in ;  also  wanaheil, ‘sickly,’  perhaps ‘deficient in health’; thus too  wanawizzi, ‘deficient in sense.’  wans, ‘deficient, lacking,’  vanr, ‘lacking,’ is an old  with the suffix ana, from the Aryan root ū̆, ‘to be empty,’ from which  is derived;  the Zend root û, ‘to want,’  ûna, ‘wanting,’ and  wanôn, ‘to diminish.’  ,, ‘true, real, genuine,’ from the  and  wâr (also  wœre,  wâri); corresponding to  wâr,  waar, ‘true.’ A genuine  word, found only in a few languages;  vêrus,  fír, ‘true’ (and also  věru, ‘belief’), are primitively allied to it; its  meaning has not been discovered. In, only *tuzwêrs, ‘doubtful,’ appears to be cognate; but unwêrs, ‘indignant,’  mitiwâri, ‘mild,’ probably belong to another class. The word for ‘true’ in is sunjis, in, sôþ, which are related to  , Aryan root es; ‘the true’ is thus ‘the existent,’ which suggests a connection between  vêrus,  to  wêro-, through the medium of a prehistoric form, *wes-ró-, with the Aryan root wes, ‘to be’ (see ). ,, ‘to watch over, preserve,’ from  warn,  , ‘to notice, be careful, pay attention to’;  only in biwarôn (the same as  bewarn,  , ‘to keep, preserve’). the corresponding warôn, ‘to pay attention to.’ From  is derived  se garer, ‘to guard against, mind’; but  garnir ( guarnire), ‘to furnish, stock,’ is based on the   warnôn,  warnen, which, like, is derived from the same root war, ‘to take care of, look after.’ To this is allied  and  wara,  war, , ‘attention,’ still preserved in , ‘to perceive,’ from  war nëmen,  and  wara nëman, ‘to pay attention to, perceive’ (in  and  construed with the genit.),  ‘to have regard to.’ The  root. war, ‘to take heed, notice,’ is rightly regarded as cognate with  ὁράω, ‘I see’ (Aryan root wor, to which  is also allied).  ,, ‘to last, continue,’ from the  wërn,  wërên,  ; allied to  warôn, ‘to last.’ The r of these verbs is based on an old s, which leads to a connection with the Aryan root wes, ‘to be’. , and, ‘during, pending, whilst,’ properly a.   ,, ‘fixed value or standard,’ from wërunge, ‘guaranteed alloy.’  , see.  ,, ‘soothsayer, prophet,’ from the late  (rare) wârsager, which is properly. wârsago, ‘prophet,’ and.   , see.   ,, ‘mark, token, omen, signal,’ from warzeichen, , ‘token, mark,’ for which the   and  wortzeichen ( wordtêkan), , is ordinarily used. The word has been corrupted; its form and meaning are obscure. also the cognate, jartein, ‘token of recognition.’   ,, ‘woad, blue dye,’ from the  and  weit, ; corresponding to the   weede,  wâd,  woad,  *waida- (for which wizdila, ‘woad,’ is found,’ whence  guasdium,  guède). From is derived the   cognate,  guado. vitrum, ‘woad,’ is historically related to the cognates, which may be based on pre- waitó. <section end="Waid" /> <section begin="Waidmann" /> , see (2). <section end="Waidmann" />