... the word was-a, gen. wasan (masc.), satyrus, faunus, a sort of genius of the woods, also wudewasa, faunus sylvaticus. This word is allied to the clearly formed word wasjan, insanire, furere, bacchari; also to the Old Norse vasa, licentius incidere; vas (neut.), licentior incisus, animosior progressus. ... Wassing is derived from wasa, faunus, and is a patronymic--the descendant of a vasa. Examples: ... Wassingatun, ...
Leo, Heinrich, Treatise on the Local Nomenclature of the
Anglo-Saxons, 1852, p. 100, 101.
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