Weasand Definition
wēzənd
noun
The gullet or throat.
American Heritage Medicine
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Other Word Forms of Weasand
Noun
Singular:
weasand
Plural:
weasandsOrigin of Weasand
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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").
From Wiktionary
Middle English wesand perhaps from Old English wǣsend variant of wāsand
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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