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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
wy (plural wies)
- 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[edit]
name of the letter Y, y — see wye
Anagrams[edit]
Afrikaans[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
wy
- Obsolete form of ons.
Lower Sorbian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
wy pl
- you (plural and formal)
Declension[edit]
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.
Mfumte[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]
wy (upper case Wy)
- A letter of the Mfumte alphabet.
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old Polish wy, from Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
wy
- you (second person plural, familiar or to younger people)
Declension[edit]
Declension of wy
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- wy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Upper Sorbian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos.
Pronoun[edit]
wy
- you (second-person plural)
Declension[edit]
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 | æe (after preposition) tebje |
waju | was | |||||
Dative | æi (after preposition) tebi |
wamaj | wam | |||||
Accusative | æe (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 |
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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 |
Welsh[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Welsh wy, from Old Welsh ui, from Proto-Celtic *āwyom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /uːɨ̯/
- (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /ʊi̯/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /wiː/
- Rhymes: -ʊɨ̯
Noun[edit]
wy m (plural wyau)
Derived terms[edit]
Mutation[edit]
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. |
West Frisian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Frisian wī, from Proto-West Germanic *wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy-, plural of *éǵh₂.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
wy
- we (first-person plural nominative pronoun)
Inflection[edit]
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[edit]
- “wy”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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