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Pictures 2 and 3: are we sure that's to depict waves? To me it looks like the (stylised, artistic depiction of) backsplash when rain hits a water surface.
Pictures 1 and 4: yeah, that's kinda how waves look like pictured in a medievalist art style. You gotta remember that naturalism (i.e. the realistic approach to picture things) is not beginning before the renaissance. But besides the regularities in shape and orientation, this looks pretty well like windswept waves.
Yeah sometimes we forget that art movements/styles existed intentionally well before the 19th century lol.
Short form symbolism is part of media, and while some of that understood context may be lost to time it doesn’t erase it entirely. They were just as nuanced, goofy and human as we are.