wan- en · X
Pronunciation
- /wɒn/
Etymology
From Middle English wan-, from Old English wan-, from Proto-West Germanic *wana-, from Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“lacking, missing, deficient”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to be lacking, be empty”).
Meanings
- (idiomatic, morpheme) Preceding nouns and adjectives with the sense “bad”, “un-”.