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Translingual
Alternative forms
- vv (obsolete)
Letter
w (upper case W)
- The twenty-third letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
- The first letter of callsigns allocated to American broadcast television and radio stations east of the Mississippi river.
Pronunciation
IPA (file)
Gallery
- Capital and lowercase versions of W, in normal and italic type
- Uppercase and lowercase W in Fraktur
See also
- (Latin script): Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Sſs Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
- (Variations of letter W): Ẃẃ Ẁẁ Ŵŵ Ẅẅ Ẇẇ Ẉẉ W̊ẘ Ⱳⱳ ᴡ Ww
- (Letter combinations): Ꜳꜳ Ææ ᴁᴭ Ǽǽ Ǣǣ Ꜵꜵ Åå Ꜷꜷ Ꜹꜹ Ꜻꜻ Ꜽꜽ ct ȸ DZDzdz DŽDždž ᴂᵆ ᴔ & ff fi ffi fl ffl ℔ IJij LJLjlj Ỻỻ Ŋŋ NJNjnj Œœ ɶ Ꝏꝏ Ȣȣᴕ ȹ ẞß ſtst ᵫ Ůů Ww Ꝡꝡ
- Turned: ʍ
- Ƿ
- ʬ
Other representations of W:
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdʌbl̩.juː/, /ˈdʌb.juː/, /ˈdʌb.jə/, /ˈdʌb/, /ˈdʌbz/
Audio (US) (file)
- IPA(key): /w/
- Rhymes: -ʌbjə, -ʌb
- Rhymes: -ʌbəlju
Letter
See also
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɔbəlveː/, [ˈd̥ʌb̥əlˌveːˀ]
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -eː
- (letter name): IPA(key): /ʋeː/
Egyptian
Particle
enclitic
- (Old Egyptian) not; used to negate the subjunctive or prospective in wishes and commands
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of w
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References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 415 page 198, 415.
Finnish
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Letter
w (lower case, upper case W)
- A letter of the Finnish alphabet, called kaksoisvee and written in the Latin script.
Usage notes
- In the Finnish alphabet, w is a variant of v.
- Used only in loanwords and proper names with old spelling.
Fula
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /w/
Gothic
Haitian Creole
Ido
Italian
Japanese
Punctuation mark
w
Usage notes
w is most often found used multiple times in a row as in the example above.
Lower Sorbian
Alternative forms
- we (especially before labial consonants and consonant clusters)
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *vъ(n), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /w/ (before vowels)
- (silent before consonants)
Malay
Letter
w (lower case, upper case W)
Norwegian
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /ˈdɔbəlt.ˌʋeː/
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /ʋ/, /v/
Audio (file)
Letter
w
- The 23rd letter of the Norwegian alphabet.
Usage notes
- Only appears in loanwords from e.g. German.
Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *vъ(n), from Proto-Indo-European *én.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f/, /v/
- (letter name) IPA(key): /vu/
Audio (file)
Usage notes
Some combinations of sounds, mostly consonant clusters at the beginning of the following noun, require that this preposition is used in longer form we. Examples:
- we włosach (in the hair)
- we Wrocławiu (in Wrocław)
But:
- w Warszawie (in Warsaw)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /w/, /ɡw/, /β/
- (letter name) IPA(key): /ˈuβe ˈdoβle/, /ˈdoβle be/
Audio (Spain) (file)
Swedish
Pronunciation
- Letter name
- IPA(key): /ˈdɵbɛlveː/
- Phoneme
- IPA(key): /v/
Letter
w (lower case, upper case W)
- The twenty-third letter of the Swedish alphabet, called dubbel-ve and written in the Latin script. Previously treated as a variant of the letter v and not as its own independent letter.
Usage notes
- In blackletter typography, w was commonly used instead of v. When printers (gradually during the 19th century) changed to Latin typography, spelling changed from w to v, except in some family names. However, this change does not count as a spelling reform.
- In many abbreviations, Swedes say v (ve, as in German) instead of w (dubbel ve), e.g. BMW (be emm ve), VW (ve ve), WC (ve se), WHO (ve hå o), WWW (ve ve ve).
Welsh
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʊ/, /w/
Usage notes
This word is usually found in conjunction with the pronoun i and so may be pronounced as part of a diphthong /ʊi̯/ or as /wiː/.
Verb
w
- (colloquial, South Wales) first-person singular present of bod (in affirmative or negative statements)
- W i yn y car. ― I’m in the car.
- W i ddim yn hapus. ― I’m not happy.
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /ɯ˨˦/
- Tone numbers: w1
- Hyphenation: w
Zulu
Letter
w (lower case, upper case W)
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