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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]waye (plural wayes)
- Obsolete spelling of weigh.
- Obsolete spelling of way.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 25-6:
- I may assert Eternal Providence, / And justifie the wayes of God to men.
Maore Comorian
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]waye
Yoruba
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From wá (“to come”) + ayé (“earth”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]wáyé
- to come into existence; to come about; to occur