wei

wei

1. water

• ABVD

From Proto-Oceanic *waiʀ, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

wei

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

• The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic (2007, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /βaɪ̯/

wei

1. because

wei

1. water

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• IPA^(key): /ʋɛi̯/

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• Rhymes: -ɛi̯
• Hyphenation: wei
• Homophone: wij

From Middle Dutch wei, from Old Dutch *wei, from Proto-West Germanic *hwai, presumably from Proto-Germanic *hwajaz.

Cognate with Limburgish wei, Old Saxon *hwei, Middle Low German wei, German Low German Wei, Old Frisian *wei, Saterland Frisian Woaie, West Frisian waai, Old English hwǣġ, Middle English whey, English whey, Scots whey.

Two hypotheses exist regarding cognates outside of Germanic:

• The first hypothesis proposes a relationship with Sanskrit क्षीर (kṣīra), Persian شیر‎‎, Ossetian ӕхсыр (æxsyr), Northern Kurdish şîr;
• The second hypothesis proposes a relationship with Latin cāseus, Old Church Slavonic квасъ (kvasŭ), Russian квас (kvas), Czech kvas, Polish kwas.

wei f (uncountable)

1. a product obtained from milk; whey [First attested in the early 14th century.]

   Synonyms: hui, melkwei

   Een van de nevenproducten van melk is wei. ― One of the byproducts of milk is whey.

2. (obsolete) serum, a component of blood which does not play a role in clotting

   Synonyms: serum, bloedserum

   De centrifuge scheidt het stolsel van de wei. ― The centrifuge separates the coagulated blood from the serum.

• bloedwei
• weiboter
• weikaas
• weiroom
• weivocht

wei f (plural weiden, diminutive weitje n)

1. Alternative form of weide

• wie

wẹị or węi

1. (Boro, Tebera) water

• wị (Suri)
• ipi (Sopese)

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67 (as wẹị)
• Folopa wordlist
• Carol Anderson, Beginning Folopa Language Lessons and Simple Glossary (2010) (as węi)

• wai (Lewa)

wei

1. (Southern, Umbu Ratu Nggai) water

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

wei

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

• Ursula Samely, Robert H. Barnes, A Dictionary of the Kedang Language: Kedang-Indonesian-English

From Proto-Khasian *wiː. Cognate with Pnar wi.

wei

1. one

From Proto-Oceanic *waiʀ, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

wei

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

• ABVD

wei

1. second-person singular imperative of weien

wei

1. Nonstandard spelling of wēi.
2. Nonstandard spelling of wéi.
3. Nonstandard spelling of wěi.
4. Nonstandard spelling of wèi.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

wei

1. Alternative spelling of way

From Old Frisian wei, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.

• (Clay) IPA^(key): /vai̯/
• (Wood) IPA^(key): /vɛi̯/

wei c (plural wegen, diminutive weike)

1. road
2. way

• spoarwei

• “wei (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011