wy

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English

Alternative forms

• wye

Noun

wy (plural wies)

1. The name of the letter Y.

Translations

Anagrams

• YW, yw

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəi/

Pronoun

wy

1. Obsolete form of ons.

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɨ/

Pronoun

wy pl

1. you (plural and formal)

Declension

Mfumte

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɥ/

Letter

wy (upper case Wy)

1. A letter of the Mfumte alphabet.

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vy. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /vɨ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /vɨ/

Pronoun

wy

1. plural second person pronoun; you
2. polite singular second person pronoun; you

Declension

Descendants

• Polish: wy
• Silesian: wy

References

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wy”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “wy”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish wy.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɘ
• Syllabification: wy

Pronoun

wy

1. plural second person pronoun; you
2. (dated) polite singular second person pronoun; you

   Synonyms: (for men) pan, (for women) pani

Declension

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 11 times in essays, 64 times in fiction, and 199 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 279 times, making it the 182nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

See also

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

References

Further reading

• wy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• wy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wy”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Renata Bronikowska (22.06.2021) “WY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wy”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wy”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wy”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 791

Silesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɪ
• Syllabification: wy

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish wy.

Pronoun

wy

1. plural second person pronoun; you

Declension

Etymology 2

Preposition

wy

1. Alternative form of w, used mostly before words that begin with consonant clusters

Further reading

• wy in silling.org

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

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

Pronoun

wy

1. you (second-person plural)

Declension

Further reading

• “wy” in Soblex

Welsh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

wy m (plural wyau)

1. egg

Derived terms

• gwyn wy
• melyn wy
• wy Pasg
• wyfa, wygell (“ovary”)

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “wy”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

wy

1. we (first-person plural nominative pronoun)

Inflection

Further reading

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