wy

See also: WY, ŵy, -wy, wy-, and .wy

English

Alternative forms

Noun

wy (plural wyes)

  1. The name of the letter Y.

Translations
name of the letter Y, y — see wye

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vəi/

Pronoun

wy

  1. we

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /wɨ/

Pronoun

wy pl

  1. you (plural and formal)

Declension
Declension of the second-person pronouns
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ty wej wy
Genitive śi
tebje¹		 waju was
Dative śi
tebje¹		 wama wam
Accusative śi
tebje¹		 waju was
Instrumental tobu wama wami
Locative tebje wama was
Possessive determiner twój waju waš

¹ Both śi and tebje are used when no preposition precedes, but after a preposition only tebje is used.

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vɨ/
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Pronoun

wy

  1. you (second person plural, familiar or to younger people)

Declension
declension of wy
plural
nominative wy
genitive was
dative wam
accusative was
instrumental wami
locative was
vocative wy

See also
  • Appendix:Polish pronouns

Further reading
  • wy in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos

Pronoun

wy

  1. you (second-person plural)

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh wy, from Old Welsh ui, from Proto-Celtic *āwyom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

Pronunciation

Noun

wy m (plural wyau)

  1. egg

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalh-prothesis
wy unchanged unchanged hwy
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Derived terms
  • gwyn wy
  • melyn wy
  • wy Pasg

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian wī, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy-, plural of *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation
  • (Clay) IPA(key): /vɛi̯/
  • (Wood) IPA(key): /vi/

Pronoun

wy

  1. we (first-person plural nominative pronoun)

Inflection
West Frisian personal pronouns
Number Person Nominative Objective Possessive
Normal Reflexive Determiner Pronoun
Singular First ik my mysels myn mines
Second Informal do/dû1 dy dysels dyn dines
Formal jo jo josels jo jowes
Third Masculine hy him himsels syn sines
Feminine sy/hja1 har harsels har harres
Neuter it it himsels syn sines
Plural First wy ús ússels ús uzes
Second jim(me) jim(me) jimmes jimsels/jinsels jim(me)
Third sy/hja1 har(ren) harsels har(ren) harres
1. Now mostly archaic and unused

Further reading
  • “wy”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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