Weasand definition
The gullet or throat.
noun
The gullet or throat.
noun
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Noun
Singular:
weasand
Plural:
weasandsOrigin of weasand
- Middle English wesand perhaps from Old English wǣsend variant of wāsand
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English wesand, wesande, from Old English wÇ£send, wāsend (“weasand, windpipe, gullet"), from Proto-Germanic *waisundiz (“windpipe, gullet"), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, run"). Cognate with Old Frisian wāsende, wāsande (“weasand"), Middle High German weisant (“windpipe"), Bavarian Waisel, Wasel, Wasling (“the gullet of ruminating animals").
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