weste

From Old English wēste, from Proto-West Germanic *wōstī, from Proto-Germanic *wōstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to desert”). Doublet of weste (“deserted”).

• west
• wesste (Ormulum)

• IPA^(key): /ˈweːst(ə)/, /ˈwɛst(ə)/

weste

1. (chiefly Early Middle English) uncultivated, deserted, desolate

• westen (“wilderness”)
• westen (“to devastate”)

weste

1. (Early Middle English, rare) wasteland, wilderness

• “wẹ̄ste, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “wẹ̄ste, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

weste

1. Alternative form of westen (“to move west”)

weste

1. Alternative form of westen (“to devastate”)

• wœ̄ste, wōstu

From Proto-West Germanic *wōstī (“waste, desolate”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈweːs.te/

wēste

1. desolate, waste, barren, deserted; uninhabited, empty
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     Onġietan sċeal glēaw hæle · hū gǣstlīċ bið,
     þonne ealle þisse worulde wela · wēste stondeð;

     A wise man must understand how spiritual it is
     when all wealth of this world stands empty;

2. void

• Middle English: weste, west, wesste (Ormulum)