wy

• wye

wy (plural wies)

1. The name of the letter Y.
   • 1856, Goold Brown, The First Lines of English Grammar, page 10:

     The names of the letters, as now commonly spoken and written in English, are A, Bee, Cee, Dee, E, Eff, Gee, Aitch, I, Jay, Kay, Ell, Em, En, O, Pee, Kue, Ar, Ess, Tee, U, Vee, Double-u, Ex, Wy, Zee.

• YW, yw

• IPA^(key): /vəi/

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wy

1. Obsolete form of ons.

From Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos.

• IPA^(key): /wɨ/

wy pl

1. you (plural and formal)

Inherited from Old Polish wy, from Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos.

• IPA^(key): /vɨ/

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• Rhymes: -ɨ
• Syllabification: wy

wy

1. you (second person plural, familiar or to younger people)

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

• wy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• wy in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos.

wy

1. you (second-person plural)

From Middle Welsh wy, from Old Welsh ui, from Proto-Celtic *āwyom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /uːɨ̯/
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ʊi̯/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /wiː/
• Rhymes: -ʊɨ̯

wy m (plural wyau)

1. egg

• gwyn wy
• melyn wy
• wy Pasg

From Old Frisian wī, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy-, plural of *éǵh₂.

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

wy

1. we (first-person plural nominative pronoun)

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