wē

See also: Appendix:Variations of "we"

Hawaiian

Noun

wē

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter W/w.

Japanese

Romanization

wē

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ウェー

Mandarin

Alternative forms

  • we — nonstandard

Romanization

wē (we1, Zhuyin ㄨㄝ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of V

Maori

Etymology

Monophthongization (thus also doublet) of wai, see there for more details.

Noun

wē

  1. water
  2. liquid
    Synonym: wai

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “wē”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 564-5
  • “wē” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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