way

way

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Translingual

Symbol

way

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Wayana.

See also

  • Wiktionary's coverage of Wayana terms

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: wā, IPA(key): /weɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ
  • Homophones: Wei, weigh, wey; whey (wine–whine merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English way, wey, from Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Doublet of voe and possibly via.

Alternative forms

  • waye, waie (both obsolete)

Noun

way (plural ways)

  1. (heading) To do with a place or places.
    1. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
      • "It's a long way to Tipperary, / it's a long way to go." [It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, a marching and music hall song by Jack Judge and Henry "Harry" James Williams, popularized especially by British troops in World War One]
      • "Do you know the way to San Jose?" [song title and lyrics, Bacharach and David]
    2. A means to enter or leave a place.
    3. A roughly-defined geographical area.
  3. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
    1. (with 'the', usually with modifier) A set of values and customs associated with and seen as central to the identity of a group of people.
  4. A state or condition
  5. (heading) Personal interaction.
    1. Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
    2. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
  6. (Germanic paganism) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
    • To walk the Way of the Runes, you must experience the runes as they manifest both in the part of Midgard that lies outside yourself and the worlds within. (Diana Paxson)
  7. (nautical, uncountable) Speed, progress, momentum.
  8. A degree, an amount, a sense.
  9. (US, As the head of an interjectory clause, followed by an infinitive starting with “to”) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.
  10. (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
  11. (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.
Synonyms
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Derived terms
Translations

Interjection

way

  1. (slang, only in reply to no way) yes; it is true; it is possible
    Synonym: yes way

Verb

way (third-person singular simple present ways, present participle waying, simple past and past participle wayed)

  1. (obsolete) To travel.
    • 1919, Gotō Shinpei, "Japanese Statesman on Christian Missions", The Missionary Review, Volume 42, p. 660
      Laötze says, “The Name that can be named is not the Eternal Name. The Way that can be wayed, is not the Eternal Way.” Infinite wisdom is beyond the human power to understand.

Etymology 2

Apheresis of away.

Alternative forms

  • 'way, ’way (dated)

Adverb

way (not comparable)

  1. (informal, with an adverbial) Far.
  2. (informal, with comparative or with too + adjective) Much, far, by a great degree.
  3. (slang, with positive adjective) Very.
Synonyms
  • (much): far, much, a lot, loads
  • (very): so, very, so much
Derived terms
  • way too
  • way too many
  • way too much
Translations

Adjective

way (not comparable)

  1. (informal, attributive) Extreme, far

Noun

way (plural ways)

  2. (glassblowing, obsolete) A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.
    Synonym: web

Etymology 3

From the sound it represents, by analogy with other (velar) letters such as kay and gay.

Noun

way (plural ways)

  1. The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms
  • double-u

Anagrams

  • Yaw, wya, yaw

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwaj/ [ˈwʌj]
  • Hyphenation: way

Verb

wáy

  1. affirmative imperative singular of wée

Adverb

wáy

  1. (+ negative) never

Noun

wáy m 

  1. time, instance

Declension

Synonyms

  • (time, instance): wák

Derived terms

References

  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “way”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2004) Parlons Afar: Langue et Culture, L'Hammartan, →ISBN, page 37
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[6], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Bobot

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

Noun

way

  1. water

References

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

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwaj/ [ˈwaɪ̯]

Adjective

way

  1. (dialectal, Metro Cebu) Pronunciation spelling of walay.

Numeral

way

  1. (dialectal, Metro Cebu) Pronunciation spelling of walay.

Pronoun

way

  1. (dialectal, Metro Cebu) Pronunciation spelling of walay.

Derived terms

  • way sapayan

Verb

way

  1. (dialectal, Metro Cebu) Pronunciation spelling of walay.

Epigraphic Mayan

Verb

way

  1. to sleep
  2. to transform

Highland Popoluca

Noun

way

  1. hair

References

  • Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎[7] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 115

Koyraboro Senni

Verb

way

  1. to milk

Kurudu

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

Noun

way

  1. water

Lampung Api

Etymology

From Proto-Lampungic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

Noun

way

  1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

Mofu-Gudur

Noun

way

  1. house

Ojibwe

Particle

way

  1. exclamation

References

  • The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/way-pc-disc

Old Javanese

Etymology 1

Noun

way

  1. Alternative spelling of we (“sun, day”)

Etymology 2

Noun

way

  1. Alternative spelling of wwe (“water”)

Further reading

  • "way" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English wye, the English name of the letter Y/y.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /waj/ [waɪ̯]
  • Rhymes: -aj
  • Syllabification: way

Noun

way (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜌ᜔)

  1. the name of the Latin-script letter Y/y, in the Filipino alphabet
    Synonyms: (in the Abakada alphabet) ya, (in the Abecedario) ye

See also

  • (Latin-script letter names) titik; ey, bi, si, di, i, ef, dyi, eyts, ay, dyey, key, el, em, en, enye, en dyi, o, pi, kyu, ar, es, ti, yu, vi, dobolyu, eks, way, zi

Further reading

  • “way”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Tz'utujil

Noun

way

  1. tortilla

Synonyms

  • away

Ujir

Etymology

from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

Noun

way

  1. water

Zarma

Adjective

way

  1. female

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