whey

English

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Etymology

Middle English wheye, whei, from Old English hwǣġ, hweġ, from Proto-Germanic *hwajan (cf. West Frisian waai, Dutch wei), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kʷei 'to pile up, build' (cf. Old Church Slavonic чинъ (činŭ, “order”), Ancient Greek ποιέω (poiéō, “to pile up, make”), Sanskrit káya 'body').

Pronunciation

• enPR: wā, IPA: /weɪ/, X-SAMPA: /weI/
• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophones: way, weigh, wey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

whey (uncountable)

1. The liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained in the process of making cheese.

Translations

liquid remaining after milk has been curdled

• Albanian: hirrë f
• Czech: syrovátka (cs) f
• Danish: valle (da)
• Dutch: wei (nl) f
• Finnish: hera (fi)
• French: petit-lait (fr) m
• Georgian: შრატი (ka) (šrati)
• German: Molke (de) f
• Greek: ξινόγαλο (el) (xinógalo) n, ορός γάλακτος (el) (orós gálaktos) m
• Hungarian: savó
• Icelandic: mysa (is) f
• Irish: meadhg (ga) m
• Italian: siero (it) di latte (it)
• Latin: serum (la) n

• Luxembourgish: Wässeg (lb) m
• Macedonian: сурутка (mk) (súrutka) f
• Norwegian: myse (no) m
• Ossetian: сулу (sulu) (in Digor dialect only)
• Persian: آب‌پنیر (âb-panir)
• Polish: serwatka (pl) f
• Portuguese: soro (pt) m
• Romanian: zer (ro) m and f
• Russian: сыворотка (ru) (sývorotka) f
• Serbian: сурутка (surutka) f
• Spanish: suero (es) m, suero de soya (es) f
• Swedish: vassle (sv) c, vassla (sv) c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: maidd (cy) m

Derived terms

• wheyey
• wheylike

See also

• buttermilk
• curd
• milk
• yogurt