weasand

== English == === Alternative forms === weazand wassin, wezzen, wizen, wizzen, wosen (dialectal) weazon, wesan, wessand, wezand, wezon (obsolete) === Etymology === Inherited from Middle English wesand, wesande, wesaunt, from Old English *wǣsend, wāsend (“weasand, windpipe, gullet”), from Proto-West Germanic *waisund, *waisundu (“windpipe, gullet”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, run”). Cognate with Old Frisian wāsande (“weasand”), Old Saxon wāsendi, Old High German weisant (“windpipe”), Middle High German weisant (“windpipe”), Bavarian Waisel, Wasel, Wasling (“the gullet of ruminating animals”), Alemannic German Weisel (“esophagus (of an animal)”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈwiːzənd/ Rhymes: -iːzənd Hyphenation: wea‧sand === Noun === weasand (plural weasands) (now chiefly dialectal) The oesophagus; the gullet. The throat or windpipe. 1890, Knut Hamsen, Sult (Hunger), Part Four, at p.181 (Canongate Books Ltd. 2016 paperback edition), Sverre Lyngstad translation: They're both so engrossed in this that they don't notice my landlady, who comes rushing out to learn what's going on. / "Why," her son explains, "he grabbed me by the weasand, it took me a long time to get my wind back." ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Sandawe