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wlate

wlate

English

Verb

wlate ‎(third-person singular simple present wlates, present participle wlating, simple past and past participle wlated)

  1. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To feel disgust (toward); loathe; abominate.
  2. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To disgust; cause (one) to loathe.

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Etymology

From Middle English wlaten, wlatien, from Old English wlātian, wlǣtian ‎(“to loathe; cause a person loathing, disgust”), from Proto-Germanic *wlētōną, *wlatōną ‎(“to disgust”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel(w)-, *wlē- ‎(“to twist, wind, roll”). Cognate with Scots wlate ‎(“to disgust”), Middle Low German wlaten ‎(“to disgust, nauseate”). Related also to Old English ġewlǣtan ‎(“to pollute, defile, debase”).

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