FromMiddle Englishweie,waie,weihe,wæȝe, fromOld Englishwǣġ(“a weight; a tool for weighing, balance, scale”), fromProto-West Germanic*wāgu, fromProto-Germanic*wēgō(“scales; weight”), fromProto-Indo-European*weǵʰ-(“to move, bring, transport”). Cognate withGermanWaage(“weight”),Icelandicvág(“a weight”).
wey (pluralweys)
- (uncommon, archaic) An old English measure of weight containing 224pounds; equivalent to 2hundredweight.
- c. 1376, William Langland,The Vision of Piers Plowman, Version B, Passus 5, Line 91:
- Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne aweye of Essex cheese.
1843,The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge[1], volume27, page202:Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6½ tods awey, 2weys 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.
1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers,A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page208:Cheese and salt are purchased by thewey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds.
1858, Peter Lund Simmonds,The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms[2], page410: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.
FromProto-Mayan*way-
wey
- (intransitive) tosleep
Preliminary Classic Maya ‐ English, English ‐ Classic Maya Vocabulary of Hieroglyphic Readings by Erik Boot
2022. Akateko Living Dictionary. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. ( to sleep "wey" wav recording )
FromOld Englishweġ, fromProto-West Germanic*weg, fromProto-Germanic*wegaz.
wey (pluralweys)
- way
wey
- alternative form ofwhey
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wey
- that
2025 April 24, Sammi Awami, “Wetin to know as Tanzania ban South Africa and Malawi imports inside quarrel wey enter anoda level”, inBBC News Pidgin[3]:Di border crossing between Tanzania and Malawiwey dey normally dey full off life dey quiet dan usual on Thursday as a result of one regional trade rowwey don enter anoda level.- The border crossing between Tanzania and Malawithat is normally full of life is quieter than usual on Thursday as a result of one regional trade rowthat has escalated.
wey
- who
wey (pluralwejweyorwejweymet)
- big
- Campbell, L. (1985).The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton De Gruyter.
- Lara-Martínez, R., McCallister, R.Glosario cultural náwat pipil y nicarao.
Variant ofgüey, representing the relaxed pronunciation of the/ɡw/ sounds.
- IPA(key): /ˈwei/[ˈwei̯]
- Rhymes:-ei
- Syllabification:wey
wey m (pluralweyes)
- (Mexico, colloquial slang, eye dialect, Internet)chump,punk,dumbass,idiot,jerk
- (Mexico, colloquial, Internet, also Latin America)dude,guy,buddy
- Synonyms:carnal,cuate,tonto,bato
- Due to the popularization of memes using Mexican slang all over Latin America through social networks, the word is heavily used on the internet by non-Mexicans and sometimes employed in spoken language.
FromDutchweide.
wey
- pasture
