wye

• IPA^(key): /waɪ/
• Homophones: y, Y, why (wine-whine merger)

• wy

Attested as wi c. 1200. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps cognate with Old French ui or gui. However Old Irish had a glyph, a u with an i underneath it, and pronounced wye.

wye (plural wyes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Y.
2. A Y-shaped object: a wye level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track.

   By going around the wye, a train can change direction.

• wye cable
• wye switch

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Old English wiga.

wye (plural wyes)

1. (poetic, obsolete) A warrior or fighter.
2. (poetic, obsolete) A hero; a man, person.

• Wey, wey, yew

• we (Baiap)
• wie (Sesivi)

wye

1. (West Ambryn) water

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