Wan
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Old English wann ‘dark, black’, of unknown origin.
wiktionary
From Middle English wan, wanne(“grey, leaden; pale grey, ashen; blue-black (like a bruise); dim, faint; dark, gloomy”), from Old English ƿann(“dark, dusky”), [1] from Proto-Germanic *wannaz(“dark, swart”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Frisian wann, wonn(“dark”).
Eye dialect spelling of one. Sense 2 (“girl or woman”) possibly as a result of the phrase your wan as a counterpart to your man.
An inflected form.
etymonline
wan (adj.)
Old English wann "dark, dusky, lacking luster," later "leaden, pale, gray," of uncertain origin, and not found in other Germanic languages. The connecting notion is colorlessness. Perhaps related to wane. Related: Wanly; wanness.
