How do you pronounce weasand?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈwiːzənd/.

Where does weasand come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

/ˈwiːzənd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"By Heaven, and all saints in it, better food hath not passed my weasand for three livelong days, and by God’s providence it is that I am now here to tell it."
"[…] Or cut his vvezand vvith thy knife."
"[A]lthough the vveazon, throtle and tongue [of birds] be the inſtruments of voice, and by their agitations doe chiefly concurre unto theſe delightfull modulations, yet cannot vve aſſigne the cauſe unto any particular formation; […]"
"For at the Throat there are tvvo cavities or conducting parts: the one the Oeſophagus or Gullet, ſeated next the ſpine, a part official unto nutrition, and vvhereby the aliment both vvet and dry is conveied unto the ſtomack; the other (by vvhich tis conceived the Drink doth paſs) is the vveazon, rough artery, or vvind-pipe, a part inſervient to voice and reſpiration; for thereby the air deſcendeth into the lungs, and is communicated unto the heart […]"
"He Fell: The Shaft [of the arrow] that ſlightly vvas impreſs’d, / Novv from his heavy Fall vvith vveight increas’d, / Drove through his Neck, aſlant, he ſpurns the Ground; / And the Soul iſſues through the VVeazon’s VVound."
"Rat. / I’ll slily seize and / Let blood from her weasand,— / Creeping through crevice, and chink, and cranny, / With my snaky tail, and my sides so scranny."

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)”).

weasands (plural) weazand (alternative) wassin (alternative, dialectal) wezzen (alternative, dialectal) wizen (alternative, dialectal) wizzen (alternative, dialectal) wosen (alternative, dialectal) weazon (alternative, obsolete) wesan (alternative, obsolete) wessand (alternative, obsolete) wezand (alternative, obsolete) wezon (alternative, obsolete)

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