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See also:Appendix:Variations of "wy"

English

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Alternative forms

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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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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European*yúHs
Proto-Balto-Slavic*wōns
Proto-Slavic*vy
Old Polishwy

    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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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European*yúHs
    Proto-Balto-Slavic*wōns
    Proto-Slavic*vy
    Old Polishwy
    Polishwy

      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

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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]

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

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      Silesian

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      Pronunciation

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      Etymology 1

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      Etymology tree
      Proto-Indo-European*yúHs
      Proto-Balto-Slavic*wōns
      Proto-Slavic*vy
      Old Polishwy
      Silesianwy

        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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        Seew.

        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.

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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.

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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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