wye

See also: Wye

English

Pronunciation

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

Alternative forms

• wy

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

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.

   Synonym: triangle

Derived terms

• wye cable
• wye switch

Translations

name of the letter Y, y

• Arabic: إِي غْرِيكَا‎ f (ʾī ḡrīkā), وَايْ‎ m (wāy)
• Basque: larriz
• Bulgarian: и́грек m (ígrek)
• Catalan: i grega (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)

• Czech: ypsilon (cs) n
• Dutch: Griekse ij, i-grec (nl)
• Esperanto: ipsilono (eo)
• Faroese: seinna i n
• Finnish: yy (fi)
• French: i grec (fr) m
• Galician: i grego (gl) m
• German: Ypsilon (de) n, Y grec n (Switzerland also)
• Greek: γουάι n (gouái)
• Hawaiian: ieta
• Hindi: वाई (hi) (vāī)
• Hungarian: ipszilon
• Icelandic: ypsilon n
• Ido: ye (io)

• Irish: yé
• Italian: i greca f, ipsilon f
• Japanese: ワイ (ja) (wai)
• Korean: 와이 (wai)
• Latin: ȳ (la), i graeca
• Malay: wai (ms)
• Marathi: वाय (vāy)
• Occitan: i grèga f
• Persian: ایگرک‎ (igrek)
• Polish: igrek (pl) m
• Portuguese: ípsilon (pt) m, i grego m
• Russian: уа́й n (uáj), уа́й n (uáj) (English), и́грек (ru) m (ígrek), ипсило́н (ru) m (ipsilón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ипсилон m

  Latin: ipsilon (sh) m

• Slovak: ypsilon m
• Spanish: i griega (es) f, ye (es) f
• Thai: วาย (th) (waai)
• Turkish: ye (tr)
• Vietnamese: i dài (vi), i-cờ-rét
• Welsh: y (cy) f

See also

• (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

Verb

wye (third-person singular simple present wyes, present participle wyeing or wying, simple past and past participle wyed)

1. (transitive, rail transport) To reverse the direction of a train using a wye.

   Since the train didn't have a control cab at the other end, they wyed the train to turn it around for the trip back to the city.

Etymology 2

Old English wiga.

Noun

wye (plural wyes)

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

Anagrams

• Wey, wey, yew

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Alternative forms

• we (Baiap)
• wie (Sesivi)

Noun

wye

1. (West Ambryn) water

References

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