"wey" meaning in All languages combined

See wey on Wiktionary

Verb [Akatek]

IPA: /bej/
Etymology: From Proto-Mayan *way- Etymology templates: {{dercat|knj|myn-pro|inh=1}}, {{inh|knj|myn-pro|*way-}} Proto-Mayan *way- Head templates: {{head|knj|verb}} wey
  1. (intransitive) to sleep Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-wey-knj-verb-w~6onUrj Categories (other): Akatek entries with incorrect language header

Noun [English]

IPA: /weɪ/ Forms: weys [plural]
enPR: wā Rhymes: -eɪ Etymology: From Middle English weie, waie, weihe, wæȝe, from Old English wǣġ (“a weight; a tool for weighing, balance, scale”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales; weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move, bring, transport”). Cognate with German Waage (“weight”), Icelandic vág (“a weight”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|weie}} Middle English weie, {{m|enm|waie}} waie, {{m|enm|weihe}} weihe, {{m|enm|wæȝe}} wæȝe, {{inh|en|ang|wǣġ|t=a weight; a tool for weighing, balance, scale}} Old English wǣġ (“a weight; a tool for weighing, balance, scale”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*wāgu}} Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*wēgō|t=scales; weight}} Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales; weight”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*weǵʰ-|t=to move, bring, transport}} Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move, bring, transport”), {{cog|de|Waage||weight}} German Waage (“weight”), {{cog|is|vág||a weight}} Icelandic vág (“a weight”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} wey (plural weys)
  1. (uncommon, archaic) An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight. Tags: archaic, uncommon
    Sense id: en-wey-en-noun-yN~ETn~K Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Middle English]

IPA: /wæi̯/ Forms: weys [plural]
Etymology: From Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|weġ}} Old English weġ, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*weg}} Proto-West Germanic *weg, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*wegaz}} Proto-Germanic *wegaz Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} wey, {{enm-noun}} wey (plural weys)
  1. way Synonyms: wei, weie, wai, way
    Sense id: en-wey-enm-noun-RMXnBx86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|noun}} wey
  1. Alternative form of whey Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: whey
    Sense id: en-wey-enm-noun-ly66Sp8f Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Conjunction [Nigerian Pidgin]

Head templates: {{head|pcm|conjunction}} wey
  1. that
    Sense id: en-wey-pcm-conj-jn~AI2r0

Pronoun [Nigerian Pidgin]

Head templates: {{head|pcm|pronoun}} wey
  1. who
    Sense id: en-wey-pcm-pron-btAzcUC9 Categories (other): Nigerian Pidgin entries with incorrect language header, Nigerian Pidgin pronouns Disambiguation of Nigerian Pidgin entries with incorrect language header: 0 100 Disambiguation of Nigerian Pidgin pronouns: 0 100

Noun [Spanish]

IPA: /ˈwei/, [ˈwei̯] Forms: weyes [plural]
Rhymes: -ei Etymology: Variant of güey, representing the relaxed pronunciation of the /ɡw/ sounds. Etymology templates: {{m|es|güey}} güey Head templates: {{es-noun|m}} wey m (plural weyes)
  1. (Mexico, colloquial slang, eye dialect, Internet) chump, punk, dumbass, idiot, jerk Tags: Internet, Mexico, colloquial, masculine, pronunciation-spelling, slang Categories (topical): Internet
    Sense id: en-wey-es-noun-9wpcd8dh Categories (other): Mexican Spanish, Spanish eye dialect, Spanish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Spanish entries with incorrect language header: 46 54
  2. (Mexico, colloquial, Internet, also Latin America) dude, guy, buddy Tags: Internet, Latin-America, Mexico, also, colloquial, masculine Categories (topical): Internet Synonyms: carnal, cuate, tonto, bato
    Sense id: en-wey-es-noun--OupXYEO Categories (other): Latin American Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Spanish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Spanish entries with incorrect language header: 46 54

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for wey meaning in All languages combined (9.9kB)

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    {
      "ipa": "/bej/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wey"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "weie"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English weie",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "waie"
      },
      "expansion": "waie",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "weihe"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "wæȝe"
      },
      "expansion": "wæȝe",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "wǣġ",
        "t": "a weight; a tool for weighing, balance, scale"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*wāgu"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *wāgu",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*wēgō",
        "t": "scales; weight"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales; weight”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*weǵʰ-",
        "t": "to move, bring, transport"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move, bring, transport”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Waage",
        "3": "",
        "4": "weight"
      },
      "expansion": "German Waage (“weight”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "vág",
        "3": "",
        "4": "a weight"
      },
      "expansion": "Icelandic vág (“a weight”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English weie, waie, weihe, wæȝe, from Old English wǣġ (“a weight; a tool for weighing, balance, scale”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales; weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move, bring, transport”). Cognate with German Waage (“weight”), Icelandic vág (“a weight”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "weys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wey (plural weys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 1-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Old English",
        "English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
        "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Old English",
        "English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
        "English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with uncommon senses",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/eɪ",
        "Rhymes:English/eɪ/1 syllable"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1376, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, Version B, Passus 5, Line 91",
          "text": "Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 27, page 202",
          "text": "Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6½ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. […] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 208",
          "text": "Cheese and salt are purchased by the wey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms, page 410",
          "text": "WEY, WEIGH, an English measure of weight; for wool, equal to 6½ tods of 28 lbs.; a load or five quarters of wheat; 40 bushels of salt, each 56 lbs.; 32 cloves of cheese, each 7 lbs.; 48 bushels of oats and barley; 2 to 3 cwt. of butter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pound",
          "pound"
        ],
        [
          "hundredweight",
          "hundredweight"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncommon, archaic) An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/weɪ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "way"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "weigh"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "whey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "wā"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wey"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English nouns",
    "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "way"
          },
          "expansion": "English: way",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: way"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sco",
            "2": "wey"
          },
          "expansion": "Scots: wey",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scots: wey"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
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            "2": "wye",
            "alts": "1"
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          "name": "desc"
        }
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      "text": "Yola: wye, waie"
    }
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "weġ"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English weġ",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*weg"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *weg",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*wegaz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wegaz",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "weys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "nouns",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "wey",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wey (plural weys)",
      "name": "enm-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "way"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "way",
          "way"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/wæi̯/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "wei"
    },
    {
      "word": "weie"
    },
    {
      "word": "wai"
    },
    {
      "word": "way"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wey"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English nouns"
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  "etymology_number": 2,
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        "1": "enm",
        "2": "noun"
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      "expansion": "wey",
      "name": "head"
    }
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  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "whey"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of whey"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "whey",
          "whey#Middle English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wey"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Nigerian Pidgin conjunctions",
    "Nigerian Pidgin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Nigerian Pidgin lemmas",
    "Nigerian Pidgin pronouns"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pcm",
        "2": "conjunction"
      },
      "expansion": "wey",
      "name": "head"
    }
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  "lang_code": "pcm",
  "pos": "conj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "that"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "that",
          "that"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wey"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Nigerian Pidgin conjunctions",
    "Nigerian Pidgin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Nigerian Pidgin lemmas",
    "Nigerian Pidgin pronouns"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pcm",
        "2": "pronoun"
      },
      "expansion": "wey",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Nigerian Pidgin",
  "lang_code": "pcm",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "who"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "who",
          "who"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wey"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Rhymes:Spanish/ei",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/ei/1 syllable",
    "Spanish 1-syllable words",
    "Spanish countable nouns",
    "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Spanish lemmas",
    "Spanish masculine nouns",
    "Spanish nouns",
    "Spanish terms spelled with W",
    "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "güey"
      },
      "expansion": "güey",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Variant of güey, representing the relaxed pronunciation of the /ɡw/ sounds.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "weyes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "wey m (plural weyes)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "wey"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Mexican Spanish",
        "Spanish colloquialisms",
        "Spanish eye dialect",
        "Spanish slang",
        "es:Internet"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "chump, punk, dumbass, idiot, jerk"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "eye dialect",
          "eye dialect"
        ],
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "chump",
          "chump"
        ],
        [
          "punk",
          "punk"
        ],
        [
          "dumbass",
          "dumbass"
        ],
        [
          "idiot",
          "idiot"
        ],
        [
          "jerk",
          "jerk"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Mexico, colloquial slang, eye dialect, Internet) chump, punk, dumbass, idiot, jerk"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "Mexico",
        "colloquial",
        "masculine",
        "pronunciation-spelling",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin American Spanish",
        "Mexican Spanish",
        "Spanish colloquialisms",
        "es:Internet"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dude, guy, buddy"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "dude",
          "dude"
        ],
        [
          "guy",
          "guy"
        ],
        [
          "buddy",
          "buddy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Mexico, colloquial, Internet, also Latin America) dude, guy, buddy"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "carnal"
        },
        {
          "word": "cuate"
        },
        {
          "word": "tonto"
        },
        {
          "word": "bato"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "Latin-America",
        "Mexico",
        "also",
        "colloquial",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwei/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈwei̯]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ei"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wey"
}

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