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 1921313196

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/

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• Rhymes: -ɛi̯
• Homophones: wij

From Middle Dutch wei, from Old Dutch *wei, from Proto-Germanic *hwają.

Cognate with English whey, West Frisian waai.

wei f (uncountable)

1. a product obtained from milk; whey

• bloedwei

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-Mon-Khmer *muuj ~ *muəj ~ *muuɲ

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

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

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

wei

1. Alternative spelling of way

From Old Frisian wei, 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