wee

• enPR: wē, IPA^(key): /wiː/

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: oui, we, whee (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

From Middle English we (“little bit”), from Old English wǣge (“weight”), related to Middle English wegan (“to move, weigh”) (15c).

wee (comparative weer, superlative weest)

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, New Zealand) Small, little.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 73:

     I had not seen a wee boy do it like that before. He was weer than me and his swimming was just like splashing about.

   You looked a little cold, so I lit a wee fire.

wee

1. A short time or short distance.

• Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)

Onomatopoeic for the sound of urination. The noun derives from the verb.

wee (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, uncountable) Urine.
2. (colloquial) An act of urination.

   I need to have a wee

• (all senses): wee-wee
• (urine): See Thesaurus:urine
• (urination): See Thesaurus:urination

wee (third-person singular simple present wees, present participle weeing, simple past and past participle weed)

1. (colloquial) To urinate.

• wee-wee, see also Thesaurus:urinate

• wee-wee

• see we

wee (personal pronoun)

1. obsolete emphatic of we
   • 1645 Marhc, John Milton, Tetrachordon.

     Yet lest wee should be Capernaitans, as wee are told there that the flesh profiteth nothing, so wee are told heer, if we be not as deaf as adders, that this union of the flesh proceeds from the union of a fit help and solace.

• Ewe, eew, ewe

From Proto-Germanic *wai. Compare Old English wā (English woe), Old High German wē (German weh), Old Norse vei.

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• IPA^(key): /ʋeː/
• Rhymes: -eː

wee (not comparable)

1. nauseating

wee f (plural weeën, diminutive weetje n)

1. contraction during labour or childbirth

   De weeën beginnen!

   The contractions are starting!

2. sorrow, sadness, pain, woe; archaic unless used as an interjection of despair or annoyance

   O wee, wat zal er van ons worden.

   Oh woe, what shall become of us.

• (sorrow): o wee, ach en wee, heimwee

• Ewe

From Old Dutch *wē, from Proto-Germanic *wai.

• IPA^(key): /weː/

wêe

1. woe!

• Dutch: wee

wêe

1. unpleasant, painful

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: wee

wêe f

1. pain

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: wee
• Limburgish: wieë

• “wee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “wee (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

wee

1. Alternative form of we (“woe”)

• enPR: wē, IPA^(key): /wiː/

wee (comparative weer, superlative weest)

1. (standard, Ulster) small, little, tiny