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vaske

“vaske” is a Danish word. Its 4 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to wash
  2. to shampoo (to wash hair with shampoo)
  3. to launder (to wash; to disguise the source of ill-gotten wealth)
  4. to shuffle (to mix up cards in a random order before a card game)

Etymology

From Old Danish waskæ, from Old Norse vaska (“to wash”), from Proto-Germanic *waskaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wod- (“wet; water”). Cognate with Swedish vaska, German waschen, Old English wæscan (English wash).

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