Attested aswi c. 1200. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps borrowed fromOld Frenchui orgui.
wye (pluralwyes)
- The name of theLatin-script letterY/y.
- 1984 Waite, Prata & Martin,C (Computer Program Language), p. 190
- Thus first C checks to see ifex andwye are equal. The resulting value of1 or0 (true or false) then is compared to the value ofzee.
2004, Will Rogers,The Stonking Steps, page170:It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh."
- A Y-shaped object:awye level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track.
Awye is used to split a single line [hose or cable] into two lines.
By going around thewye, a train can change direction.
name of the letter Y, y
- Arabic:إِي غْرِيكَا f(ʔī ḡrīkā),وَايْ m(wāy)
- Asturian:ye (ast),y griega (ast)
- Basque:larriz
- Bengali:ওয়াই(ōẇai)
- Bulgarian:и́грек m(ígrek)
- Burmese:ဝိုင် (my)(wuing)
- Catalan:i grega (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:(English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)
- Czech:ypsilon (cs) n
- Dutch:Griekse ij,i-grec (nl) m,ypsilon (nl) m orf
- Esperanto:ipsilono (eo)
- Faroese:seinna i n
- Finnish:yy (fi)
- French:i grec (fr) m
- Galician:i grego (gl) m
- German:Ypsilon (de) n,Y grec n(Switzerland also)
- Greek:γουάι n(gouái)
- Hawaiian:ieta
- Hindi:वाई (hi)(vāī)
- Hungarian:ipszilon (hu)
- Icelandic:ypsilon n
- Ido:ye (io)
- Indonesian:ye (id),igrek(obsolete)
- Irish:yé
- Italian:i greca f,ipsilon f
- Japanese:ワイ (ja)(wai)
- Korean:와이(wai)
- Latin:ȳ (la),i graeca
- Malay:wai (ms)
- Marathi:वाय(vāy)
- Occitan:i grèga f
- Persian:ایگرک(igrek)
- Polish:igrek (pl) m
- Portuguese:ípsilon (pt) m,i grego m
- Romanian:i grec m
- Russian:уа́й n(uáj),уа́й n(uáj)(English),и́грек (ru) m(ígrek),ипсило́н (ru) m(ipsilón)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:ипсилон m
- Latin:ipsilon (sh) m
- Slovak:ypsilon m
- Spanish:i griega (es) f,ye (es) f
- Thai:วาย (th)(waai)
- Turkish:ye (tr)
- Vietnamese:i dài (vi),i-cờ-rét
- Welsh:y (cy) f
- Yoruba:yí
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- (Latin-script letter names)letter;a,bee,cee,dee,e,ef,gee,aitch,i,jay,kay,el,em,en,o,pee,cue,ar,ess,tee,u,vee,double-u,ex,wye,zee /zed
wye (third-person singular simple presentwyes,present participlewyingorwyeing,simple past and past participlewyed)
- (transitive) To make something into awye (letter Y) shape.
When a hose line is divided into two or more lines, these lines are known aswyed lines.
- (transitive, rail transport) To reverse the direction of atrain using awye.
Since the train didn't have a control cab at the other end, theywyed the train to turn it around for the trip back to the city.
Committee contend that when these trains arewyed at Springfield, the road passenger crews are performing yard work at that point to eliminate switching by yard crews.
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FromOld Englishwiga.
wye (pluralwyes)
- (poetic, obsolete) Awarrior orfighter.
- (poetic, obsolete) Ahero; aman,person.
wye
- (West Ambryn)water
- we,wee,weghe,weiȝ,weiȝh,weih,whi,whye,wiȝh,wy,wyghe,wyȝ,wyȝe
- qwy(Yorkshire)
Inherited fromOld Englishwiga,[1] fromProto-West Germanic*wigō, connected to*wīgan(“to war”).
- IPA(key): /ˈwiː(ə)/,(earlier)/ˈwei̯(ə)/,(later)/ˈweː(ə)/
wye (pluralwyes)(Northeast Midland, Northwest Midland, Yorkshire, poetic)
- Aperson, ahumanbeing.
- Amaleperson; aman:
- (especially) A(male)warrior orcombatant.
- Afollower orretainer.
- Aform of address to aman.
FromMiddle Englishway, fromOld Englishweġ, fromProto-West Germanic*weg.
wye (pluralwyse)
- way
1867,GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page34:Na dickewye, nar dicka.- Neither thisway, nor that.
1867,GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page55:
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page79
