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wellawayint.n. Forms: (Word division in Old English and Middle English examples frequently reflects editorial choices of modern editors of texts, rather than the practice of the manuscripts.) α. Old English wala wa, Old English–early Middle English wa la wa, Old English–Middle English walawa, early Middle English waleawa, early Middle English walewa, Middle English walaiwa, Middle English walwa. β. Old English wegla weg, late Old English wilawei, late Old English–Middle English weilawei, early Middle English wæila wæi, early Middle English wæilawæi, Middle English wei-la-wei, Middle English weilawai, Middle English weilaway, Middle English weilawey, Middle English weile away, Middle English weile way, Middle English weileaway, Middle English weileaweie, Middle English weileawey, Middle English weileway, Middle English weilewei, Middle English weillaway, Middle English weillawaye, Middle English weillaweye, Middle English weilowaie, Middle English weiloway, Middle English weiylawey, Middle English wey la wey, Middle English weylaway, Middle English weylawei, Middle English weylawey, Middle English weyle-away, Middle English weyle-awey, Middle English weyleaway, Middle English weyleawey, Middle English weyleway, Middle English weylewey, Middle English weyllaway, Middle English weyllowey, Middle English weyloway, Middle English weylowey; Scottish pre-1700 weilawa, pre-1700 weilaway, pre-1700 weill-awa, pre-1700 weill away, pre-1700 weillaway; N.E.D. (1926) also records a form late Middle English weilowey. γ. Middle English walawo, Middle English walewo, Middle English wolawo, Middle English wo-la-wo, Middle English wo la wo, Middle English wolewo, Middle English wo-lo-wo. δ. Middle English walawai, Middle English walawaie, Middle English wala way, Middle English walawaye, Middle English walaweie, Middle English walawey, Middle English walaweye, Middle English walewai, Middle English walewaie, Middle English waleway, Middle English waleweie, Middle English waloway, Middle English walowway, Middle English woleway, Middle English 1800s– walaway (now English regional (northern)), 1800s wala-wa (English regional (northern)); Scottish pre-1700 valaway, pre-1700 walla wa, pre-1700 wallouway, pre-1700 1700s walaway, pre-1700 1700s wallawa, pre-1700 1700s walloway, pre-1700 1800s wallaway, pre-1700 1800s– wallowa, 1700s wal-a-ways, 1700s walaways, 1700s wallowways, 1700s–1800s walawa, 1800s wala wa, 1800s wallawae, 1800s wallova, 1800s wallowae, 1800s wally-wae. ε. Middle English wailawai, Middle English wailaway, Middle English wailewai, Middle English wailewaie, Middle English waileway, Middle English wailewey, Middle English waillewey, Middle English wailowai, Middle English wailoway, Middle English wailwai, Middle English wail wai, Middle English waleaway, Middle English wale-a-way, Middle English waylaway, Middle English way la way, Middle English way laway, Middle English waylawaye, Middle English waylawey, Middle English wayle-a-waye, Middle English wayleawey, Middle English wayleway, Middle English wayle-way, Middle English wayloway, Middle English waylowey, 1500s waile away; Scottish pre-1700 wail-away, pre-1700 wailaway, pre-1700 waile-away. ζ. Middle English welawo, Middle English welewo, Middle English wellawoo, Middle English well-ay-woo, Middle English welleawoy, Middle English wellowoy, Middle English welowo, 1500s well a woo, 1800s willa-woo (Scottish). η. Middle English welavey, Middle English wel away, Middle English welawei, Middle English welaweie, Middle English wel-awey, Middle English welaweye, Middle English weleuy, Middle English weleway, Middle English welewaye, Middle English welewei, Middle English well awaye, Middle English well awey, Middle English wellawey, Middle English welleaway, Middle English welle-awaye, Middle English welle-a-wey, Middle English welle awey, Middle English welle way, Middle English well-y-wey, Middle English weloway, Middle English welowey, Middle English whelaway, Middle English wylaway, Middle English–1500s welawaye, Middle English–1500s welawey, Middle English–1500s wellawaye, Middle English–1500s well-awaye, Middle English–1500s welle awaye, Middle English–1600s welawaie, Middle English–1600s welaway, Middle English–1600s 1800s well away, Middle English– well-a-way, Middle English– wellaway, 1500s wel-away, 1500s–1800s well-away, 1600s well a way; also Scottish pre-1700 welauay, pre-1700 welaway, pre-1700 wellaway, pre-1700 welloway, 1700s will-awae, 1700s willawae, 1700s–1800s williwa, 1800s well-a-wa, 1800s wellawa, 1800s well a was, 1800s willawa, 1800s willawaa, 1800s will a waes, 1800s willywae, 1800s willy-wae, 1800s willywaw, 1800s willyway, 1800s willywha, 1800s willywhaa, 1800s– willy-wha; N.E.D. (1926) also records forms late Middle English well-away, late Middle English well y weye. θ. Middle English weilawo, Middle English weleawo, Middle English weylawo, Middle English weyle a woo. ι. Middle English wele-a-way, Middle English wele awey, Middle English–1500s weleaway, Middle English–1500s wele-away, Middle English–1500s weleawey, 1500s weale awaye, 1500s–1600s weale away, 1500s–1600s (1700s–1800s archaic and poetic) wealaway, 1500s–1600s (1800s archaic and poetic) weal away, 1600s (1700s–1800s archaic and poetic) weal-away. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: woe int., lo int.1, wale int. Etymology: < woe int. + lo int.1 + woe int., perhaps as a variant of wale int. ( < woe int. + lo int.1) with partial reduplication.The form history is complex, partly reflecting attempts to render in written form an exclamation that approximates to a natural expression of grief. With the alteration of wā to weg in Old English which is seen in the β. forms compare the parallel alteration of wale int. seen in weila int. and also Old English egele , eglā , eglāeg , alterations of ēalā (see a int.1). Compare also ay int. Middle English forms showing the diphthong ei or its reflexes are perhaps reinforced by forms of woe int. reflecting Scandinavian influence (compare β. forms at woe int., adv., n., and adj. and see discussion at that entry). The subsequent development of the forms is characterized by mutual influence of the different form types on each other (as in the δ. forms) and further alterations; probably there are also divergent phonological developments correlating with divergent word division and stress patterns, e.g. shortening of long ā in the first syllable of trisyllabic forms. The distinction between reflexes of long ā and of the diphthong ai ( < ei ) is obscured in northern Middle English sources by the monophthongization of the diphthong ai to ā and the subsequent use of ai as a spelling for ā . Some of the later forms (see especially ζ. and η. forms) show alteration of the first element after well adv. (compare well adv. 20 and also wella int.). With the ι. forms compare γ. forms at well adv. and n.4, but compare also weal n.1 Occasionally, later regional forms show final -s (see wallowways at δ. forms, will a waes at η. forms), perhaps after -s suffix1; compare -ways comb. form. Variations in word division suggest that the second element is sometimes reanalysed as away adv., while medial a is perhaps sometimes reanalysed as a int.1 In use as interjection sometimes reduplicated (compare e.g. quot. c1275 at sense A. 1β. ) or combined with other interjections such as a int.1, oh int.; compare e.g. quot. a1200 at sense A. 2. When the word is repeated in the same clause, sometimes different form types occur side by side in variation with each other (often conjoined by and ); compare quots. a12251 at sense A. 1α. , a1250 at sense A. 1γ. , c1390 at sense A. 1θ. . A. int.the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [interjection] > specific cry of grief α. eOE tr. Bede (Tanner) ii. i. 96 Wala wa: þæt is sarlic [L. Heu, pro dolor], þætte swa fæger feorh..scyle agan & besittan þeostra aldor. c1175 ( Ælfric Homily: St. Vincent's Day (Cambr. Ii.1.33) in S. Irvine (1993) 106 Wa la wa, cwæþ Datianus, we synd oferswiðede. a1225 (c1200) (1888) 15 (MED) Weilawei and walawa, ðat ic min aȝen iwill swa habbe ifolȝed. a1225 (c1200) (1888) 89 (MED) Waleawa, Eve children, hu ȝie bieð beswiken. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 15367 Ful walwa! þan mai he sing. a1400 (a1325) (Gött.) l. 15279 He mai sai walawa! his werd þat forwid him es laid. the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [interjection] > specific cry of grief OE Ælfric (Cambr. Gg.3.28) ix. 74 Walawa, þæt swa fægeres hiwes menn sindon ðam sweartan deofle underðeodde. lOE (Laud) anno 1086 Walawa þet ænig man sceolde modigan swa. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius (Bodl.) (2009) I. xxxix. 358 Walawa þæt ða ungesæligan menn [ne] magon gebidon hwonne he [sc. death] him to cume. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 183 Aweilewei, þu fule hold, þat ich auere was to þe iteied. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 4005 Wæila wæi wæila wæi [c1300 Otho Weilawei weilawei] þat he is þus i-faren awæi. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 9796 Wa la wa [c1300 Otho Wo la wo] þat hit sculde iwurðen swa. c1330 (?a1300) (Auch.) (1973) 6801 Quaþ king Angvisaunt, ‘Woleway Þat ich euer bot þis day.’ a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 17575 Walawai! quat þai war blind, Quen þai wend iesum sua to find. a1450 (1885) 317 So wala way! Þat euere I was in witte or wille, Þat tristy trewe for to be-traye. 1596 E. Spenser v. i. sig. M8 Ah woe is me, and well away (quoth hee)..That euer I this dismall day did see. View more context for this quotation 1600 Earl of Surrey in sig. F2v But well-away that Nature wrought, thee Phillida so faire: For I may say that I haue bought thy beauty all too deare. a1300 in C. Brown (1932) 125 (MED) So strange er þai þat we ne may agaynis þaim stond, so way la way! a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 22703 Þis midel erth, ful wail wai! [a1400 Coll. Phys. ful wailewai!, a1400 Gött. wailwai!, a1400 Trin. Cambr. so wayleway, a1400 Fairf. walelay], Al to noght sal brin awai. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 15366 He mai sai walawai Full walwa þan mai he sing. a1450 (?c1350) Pride of Life l. 327 in N. Davis (1970) 100 Ȝe [read þe] world is nou, so wo-lo-wo, In suc bal ibound. a1450 (1885) 30 For vs is wrought, so welaway! Doole endurand nyghte and day. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil vi. i. 52 Quhair~in he porturit als, full welloway, The luif abhominable of quene Pasyphe. c1300 (?c1225) (Cambr.) (1901) 956 Walawai þe stunde! Wailaway þe while! c1330 (?a1300) (Auch.) p. 400 That euer was y born o wiue, Wayle-way þat stounde. c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) l. 4564 Wailaway to wriches & wa is ȝow in erthe. c1450 (c1400) (1908) l. 812 He wepte and sayde, ‘Welle-a-wey For my sone so dere!’ 1579 E. Spenser Sept. 58 Wel-away the while I was so fonde. 1641 T. Heywood iii. 24 But well-away for thee, to Britaine deere, For I fore-see thy sad disaster's neere. B. n.the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [noun] OE Homily: Sunnandæges Spell (Tiber. A.iii) in A. S. Napier (1883) 226 Wa la wa biþ þam mannum, þe mid deoflum scealan habban heora eardungstowe. ?a1300 Sayings St. Bernard (Digby) in F. J. Furnivall (1901) ii. 762 (MED) Al þat ioye is went away, Þat wele is comen [v.r. turnd] to weylaway. c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Otho) (1978) l. 13361 Welewo [c1275 Calig. wo] was ȝam ibore þat in hire weye were bi-vore. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) 11222 So, betwyxe fals and coueytous, ys welaweye broȝt to hous. a1400 (a1325) (Fairf. 14) l. 22472 Quar-to sulde we be borne to-day. & se bot sorou & waleway. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiv. l. 235 He hath a greuous penaunce, Þat is welawo whan he waketh. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland (Laud 581) (1869) B. xviii. l. 227 Wote no wighte..what is witterly wel til weyllowey hym teche. 1597 J. S. tr. G. Boccaccio Statelie Tragedie Guistard & Sismond i, in B 3 b Bringing forth the night, and care, and wele-away. 1640 A. Johnston (1911) I. 240 Thou bad sorrou fall the, and another tyme wallouway fall the. a1693 M. Bruce (1708) 9 This Ah carries meikle dool and wail-away in it. 1906 F. W. Bourdillon in July 46 What shall pay, Day by day, For waste and woe and well-a-way? 2. the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [noun] > (an utterance of) specific cry ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 41 Ne lates þet summe oðer hwiles weilawei vncundeliche makiet. c1300 (?c1225) (Cambr.) (1901) 1478 He makede Rymenhilde lay, & heo makede walaway. c1330 (?a1300) (Auch.) (1973) 142 To Wincherster [read Winchester] þai flowen þo Wiþ mani siȝhing and walewo. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 24352 Bot quen i raxsild vp in rage, I ne wist bot wail wai [a1400 Fairf. waleway, a1400 Gött. walaway, a1400 Coll. Phys. walewai]. ?a1475 (1922) 35 Now wyl I go wende my way With sore syeng and wel away. 1553 J. Bradford To Rdr. sig. Aijv Then was weale awaye, mournynge and woe. 1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 5474 in (1931) I With lowde allace and welaway. 1681 sig. A6 To make escape with all their might, Some ran to holes, Some to the hight, With many a wallaway. 1820 J. Keats Isabella in 79 Spirits of grief, sing not your ‘Well-a-way!’ For Isabel, sweet Isabel, will die. 1823 J. Galt II. xvii. 160 I wish that I was dead, but I'm no like to dee, as Jenny says in her wally-wae about her father's cow and auld Robin Gray. 1884 T. Woolner 22 Syrinx he saw..plunge in the stream And her young spirit pass into the reeds That now were whispering her sad well-away. 1953 W. de la Mare 65 In the long, arduous, bitter day Scarce one half-audible Wellaway? the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] > cause of lamentation 1593 G. Harvey A 3 b Who honoureth not..the very name of the renowned Lepanto:..the Halleluia of Christendome, & the Welaway of Turky? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  int.n.eOE |
