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See also:Appendix:Variations of "wy"

English

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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wy (pluralwies)

  1. The name of the letterY.
    • 1856, Goold Brown,The First Lines of English Grammar, page10:
      Thenames of the letters, as now commonly spoken and written in English, areA,Bee,Cee,Dee,E,Eff,Gee,Aitch,I,Jay,Kay,Ell,Em,En,O,Pee,Kue,Ar,Ess,Tee,U,Vee,Double-u,Ex,Wy,Zee.

Translations

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name of the letter Y, y—seewye

Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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wy

  1. obsolete form ofons

Lower Sorbian

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Etymology

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FromProto-Slavic*vy, fromProto-Indo-European*wos.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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wy pl

  1. you(plural and formal)

Declension

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Declension of the second-person pronouns
SingularDualPlural
Nominativetywejwy
Genitiveśi
tebje¹		wajuwas
Dativeśi
tebje¹		wamawam
Accusativeśi
tebje¹		wajuwas
Instrumentaltobuwamawami
Locativetebjewamawas
Possessive determinertwójwajuwaš

¹ Bothśi andtebje are used when no preposition precedes, but after a preposition onlytebje is used.

Mfumte

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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wy (upper caseWy)

  1. A letter of theMfumte alphabet.

Middle English

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Noun

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wy

  1. alternative form ofwye(“man, warrior”)

Old Polish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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wy

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

Declension

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Declension of wy
pluraldual
nominativewy—
genitivewas—
dativewamwama
accusativewas—
instrumentalwamiwama
locativewas—
vocativewy—

Descendants

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  • Polish:wy
  • Silesian:wy

References

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  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “wy”, inSłownik 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”, inSłownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków:IJP PAN,→ISBN

Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited fromOld Polishwy.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio 1:(file)
  • Audio 2:(file)
  • Rhymes:-ɘ
  • Syllabification:wy

Pronoun

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wy

  1. plural second person pronoun;you
  2. (dated)polite singular second person pronoun;you
    Synonyms:(for men)pan,(for women)pani

Declension

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Declension ofwy
plural
nominativewy
genitivewas
dativewam
accusativewas
instrumentalwami
locativewas
vocativewy

See also

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Trivia

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According toSłownik 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.[1]

References

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  1. ^Ida Kurcz (1990), “wy”, inSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page687

Further reading

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Silesian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited fromOld Polishwy.

Pronoun

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wy

  1. second-person plural pronoun;you
    Coordinate term:(singular)ty
Declension
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Declension ofwy
plural
nominativewy
genitivewŏs,was
dativewōm,wam
accusativewŏs,was
instrumentalwami
locativewŏs,was

Etymology 2

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Preposition

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wy

  1. alternative form ofw, used mostly before words that begin with consonant clusters

Further reading

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  • wy in silling.org

Upper Sorbian

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Etymology

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FromProto-Slavic*vy, fromProto-Indo-European*wos.

Pronoun

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wy

  1. you (second-person plural)

Declension

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Upper Sorbian personal pronouns
First person pronouns
singulardualplural
nominativejamójmy
genitivemje
(after preposition)mnje		najunas
dativemi
(after preposition)mni		namajnam
accusativemje
(after preposition)mnje		najunas
instrumentalmnunamajnami
locativemninas
Second person pronouns
singulardualplural
nominativetywójwy
genitiveće
(after preposition)tebje		wajuwas
dativeći
(after preposition)tebi		wamajwam
accusativeće
(after preposition)tebje		wajuwas
instrumentaltobuwamajwami
locativetebiwas
Third person pronouns
masculine singularfeminine singularneuter singulardual viriledual nonvirileplural virileplural nonvirile
nominativewónwonawonowonajwonejwoniwone
genitivejeho
(after preposition)njeho		jeje
(after preposition)njeje		jeho
(after preposition)njeho		jejujich
(after preposition)nich
dativejemu
(after preposition)njemu		jej
(after preposition)njej		jemu
(after preposition)njemu		jimaj
(after preposition)nimaj		jim
(after preposition)nim
accusativejón
(after preposition)njón
(animate)jeho
(animate after preposition)njeho		ju
(after preposition)nju		jo,je
(after preposition)njo,nje		jeju
(after preposition)njeju		jej
(after preposition)njej		jich
(after preposition)nich		je
(after preposition)nje
instrumentalnimnjejnimnimajnimi
locativenich

Further reading

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  • “wy” in Soblex

Welsh

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Welshwy, fromOld Welshui, fromProto-Celtic*āwyom, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂ōwyóm.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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wy m (pluralwyau)

  1. egg

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms ofwy
radicalsoftnasalh-prothesis
wyunchangedunchangedhwy

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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

West Frisian

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Etymology

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FromOld Frisianwī, fromProto-West Germanic*wiʀ, fromProto-Germanic*wīz, fromProto-Indo-European*wéy-, plural of*éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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wy

  1. we(first-person plural nominative pronoun)

Inflection

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West Frisian personal pronouns and possessives
personalpossessive
subject caseobject casedeterminerpronoun
normalreflexive
singular1stikmymyselsmynmines
2ndinformaldo,dû1dydyselsdyndines
formaljojojoselsjojowes
3rdmhyhimhimselssynsines
fsy,hja1harharselsharharres
nitithimselssynsines
plural1stwyúsússelsúsuzes
2ndjim(me)jim(me)jimsels,jinselsjim(me)jimmes
3rdsy,hja1har(ren)harselshar(ren)harres

1 Now mostly archaic and unused.

Further reading

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

Woiwurrung

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Pronoun

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wy

  1. us[1]

See also

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  • wan(“I, myself, thy”)
  • wat(“we”)

References

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  1. ^https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/The_aborigines_of_Victoria_-_with_notes_relating_to_the_habits_of_the_natives_of_other_parts_of_Australia_and_Tasmania_%28IA_b24885228_0002%29.pdf
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