"וי" meaning in Yiddish

See וי in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Character

Forms: oy [romanization]
Head templates: {{head|yi|letter}} וי • (oy)
  1. A letter of the Yiddish alphabet, representing /ɔɪ̯/ in Standard YIVO Yiddish Tags: letter Synonyms: ױ (oy) (english: the single-character ligature)
    Sense id: en-וי-yi-character-2QJ6Y575 Categories (other): Yiddish entries with incorrect language header

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    {
      "form": "oy",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
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      },
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "yi",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Yiddish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A letter of the Yiddish alphabet, representing /ɔɪ̯/ in Standard YIVO Yiddish"
      ],
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "english": "the single-character ligature",
          "roman": "oy",
          "word": "ױ"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "letter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "וי"
}
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      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "yi",
        "2": "letter"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yiddish",
  "lang_code": "yi",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Yiddish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Yiddish lemmas",
        "Yiddish letters"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A letter of the Yiddish alphabet, representing /ɔɪ̯/ in Standard YIVO Yiddish"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "letter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "the single-character ligature",
      "roman": "oy",
      "word": "ױ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "וי"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Yiddish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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