wy

See also: Wy, WY, wy-, -wy, .wy, and ŵy

English

Alternative forms

• wye

Noun

wy (plural wies)

1. The name of the letter Y.
   • 1856, Goold Brown, The First Lines of English Grammar, page 10:

     The names of the letters, as now commonly spoken and written in English, are A, Bee, Cee, Dee, E, Eff, Gee, Aitch, I, Jay, Kay, Ell, Em, En, O, Pee, Kue, Ar, Ess, Tee, U, Vee, Double-u, Ex, Wy, Zee.

Translations

name of the letter Y, y — see wye

Anagrams

• YW, yw

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəi/

• Audio:

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Pronoun

wy

1. Obsolete form of ons.

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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.

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Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish wy, from Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɘ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɘ
• Syllabification: wy

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 Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• wy in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Upper Sorbian

Etymology

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

Pronoun

wy

1. you (second-person plural)

Declension

Upper Sorbian personal pronouns

First person pronouns
	Singular			Dual		Plural
Nominative	ja			mój		my
Genitive	mje (after preposition) mnje			naju		nas
Dative	mi (after preposition) mni			namaj		nam
Accusative	mje (after preposition) mnje			naju		nas
Instrumental	mnu			namaj		nami
Locative	mni					nas
Second person pronouns
	Singular			Dual		Plural
Nominative	ty			wój		wy
Genitive	će (after preposition) tebje			waju		was
Dative	ći (after preposition) tebi			wamaj		wam
Accusative	će (after preposition) tebje			waju		was
Instrumental	tobu			wamaj		wami
Locative	tebi					was
Third person pronouns
	Masculine singular	Feminine singular	Neuter singular	Dual virile	Dual nonvirile	Plural virile	Plural nonvirile
Nominative	wón	wona	wono	wonaj	wonej	woni	wone
Genitive	jeho (after preposition) njeho	jeje (after preposition) njeje	jeho (after preposition) njeho	jeju		jich (after preposition) nich
Dative	jemu (after preposition) njemu	jej (after preposition) njej	jemu (after preposition) njemu	jimaj (after preposition) nimaj		jim (after preposition) nim
Accusative	jón (after preposition) njón (animate) jeho (animate after preposition) njeho	ju (after preposition) nju	jo, je (after preposition) njo, nje	jeju (after preposition) njeju	jej (after preposition) njej	jich (after preposition) nich	je (after preposition) nje
Instrumental	nim	njej	nim	nimaj		nimi
Locative						nich

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Welsh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uːɨ̯/
• IPA^(key): /ʊi̯/
  • IPA^(key): /wiː/
• Rhymes: -ʊɨ̯

Noun

wy m (plural wyau)

1. egg

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	h-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

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West Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛi̯/
• 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)	jimsels/jinsels	jim(me)	jimmes
	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