[], (Interjection)

Definitions:
- As an exclamation of sorrow or lamentation: ‘ah!’ ‘alas!’ Compare welladay, "wellanear", "well-a-wins".


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English; earliest use found in Bede's Ecclesiastical History. From woe + lo + woe, perhaps as a variant of wale with partial reduplication

[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- The utterance of ‘wellaway’; lamentation.


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English; earliest use found in Bede's Ecclesiastical History. From woe + lo + woe, perhaps as a variant of wale with partial reduplication