wei

wei

1. water

• ABVD

From Proto-Oceanic *waiʀ, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

wei

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

• The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic (2007, →ISBN

• wäu (East Central Bavarian, Vienna)
• weil (Southern Bavarian)

From the accusative of Middle High German wīle, from Old High German wīla, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīlu, from Proto-Germanic *hwīlō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”).

• IPA^(key): /vɑɛ̯/, [βɑɛ̯]

wei (West Central Bavarian)

1. because, given that

• dawei
• Wei

wei

1. water

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• IPA^(key): /ʋɛi̯/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛi̯
• Hyphenation: wei
• Homophone: wij

From Middle Dutch wei, from Old Dutch *wei, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaij (“whey”).

wei f (uncountable)

1. a product obtained from milk; whey [First attested in the early 14th century.]

   Synonyms: hui, melkwei

   Een van de nevenproducten van melk is wei. ― One of the byproducts of milk is whey.

2. (obsolete) serum, a component of blood which does not play a role in clotting

   Synonyms: serum, bloedserum

   De centrifuge scheidt het stolsel van de wei. ― The centrifuge separates the coagulated blood from the serum.

• bloedwei
• weiboter
• weikaas
• weiroom
• weivocht

Alteration of weide with regular syncope of intervocalic -d-; compare weder / weer, leder / leer, lade / la, and so forth.

wei f (plural weiden, diminutive weitje n)

1. alternative form of weide

• wie

wẹị or węi

1. (Boro, Tebera) water

• wị (Suri)
• ipi (Sopese)

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67 (as wẹị)
• Folopa wordlist
• Carol Anderson, Beginning Folopa Language Lessons and Simple Glossary (2010) (as węi)

• wai (Lewa)

wei

1. (Southern, Umbu Ratu Nggai) water

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

wei

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

• Ursula Samely, Robert H. Barnes, A Dictionary of the Kedang Language: Kedang-Indonesian-English

From Proto-Khasian *wiː. Cognate with Pnar wi.

wei

1. one

From Proto-Oceanic *waiʀ, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

wei

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

• ABVD

wei

1. second-person singular imperative of weien

wei (wei⁵ / wei⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄨㄟ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 煀
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 喂

wei

1. nonstandard spelling of wēi
2. nonstandard spelling of wéi
3. nonstandard spelling of wěi
4. nonstandard spelling of wèi

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

wei

1. alternative spelling of way

wei

1. water

• Peter C. Backstrom, et Carla F. Radloff, “Languages of northern areas”, in Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, vol. 2, National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University and Summer Institute of Linguistics, Islamabad, 1992, page 341

From Proto-Cariban *weju.

wei

1. sun

From Old Frisian wei, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.

• (Clay) IPA^(key): /vai̯/
• (Wood) IPA^(key): /vɛi̯/

wei c (plural wegen, diminutive weike)

1. road
2. way

• spoarwei

• “wei (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011