vy

vy (third-person singular simple present vies or vyes, present participle vying, simple past and past participle vied or vyed)

1. Obsolete form of vie.
   • 1698, John Milton, A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works, page 27:

     […] and by continual Study had so incorporated the Phrase and Stile of that Apostle into all his familiar Letters, that the Imitation seem'd to vy with the Original.

• vyg (also standard, less common)

Backformation from vye, plural of vyg, from Dutch vijg.

• IPA^(key): /fəi/, [fə̟i̯]

• Audio:

  (file)

vy (plural vye)

1. fig

• vyeboom
• vygie

From my.

vy

1. I, me, my (enclitic, used to reinforce previous pronoun)

   ow lyver vy

   my book

   Ple yth vy?

   Where did I go?

Inherited from Old Czech vy, from Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *yúHs.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪ]

• Audio:

  (file)

vy

1. you (personal second person plural)
2. you (formal second person singular)

• “vy”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “vy”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “vy”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Malay besi, from Proto-Malayic *bəsi, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *bəsi.

vy

1. (physics, chemistry, metallurgy) iron (element)

vy (Raguileo spelling)

1. name

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

vy

1. to wake up, to get up

From French vue (“vision”).

vy m (definite singular vyen, indefinite plural vyer, definite plural vyene)

1. perspective, outlook, vision

   Han har store vyer om framtida. ― He has great visions for the future.

• “vy” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “vy” in The Ordnett Dictionary

From French vue (“vision”).

vy m (definite singular vyen, indefinite plural vyar, definite plural vyane)

1. perspective, outlook, vision

   Han har store vyar for framtida. ― He has great visions for the future.

• “vy” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vy.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈʋɨ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈvi/

vy

1. you, ye (plural or dual, nominative)
2. you (plural or dual, accusative)

• Czech: vy

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “vy”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vy.

• IPA^(key): [vi]

vy

1. you

• “vy”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

From French vue.

• IPA^(key): /vyː/

vy c

1. view

• utsikt