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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'was' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions was verb  First-person singular simple past tense indicative of be. Third-person singular simple past tense indicative of be. Etymology: From (Ger.) wísín, cognate with German war < (PIE.) Wiktionary Appendix:Proto-Indo-European roots, wes- "to reside". The paradigm of "to be" has been since the time of Proto-Germanic a synthesis of three originally distinct verb stems. The infinitive form "to be" is from Proto-Indo-European Wiktionary Appendix:Proto-Indo-European roots, b<font size=-2>H</font>eu- "to become". The words "is" and "are" are both derived from Proto-Indo-European Wiktionary Appendix:Proto-Indo-European roots, h1es- "to be". Lastly, the past forms starting with "w-" such as "was" and "were" are from Proto-Indo-European Wiktionary Appendix:Proto-Indo-European roots, wes- "to reside".        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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