wy
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
Anagrams edit
Afrikaans edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
wy
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
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
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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.
Old Polish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vy. First attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
wy
Declension edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wy”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “wy”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Polish wy.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
wy
Declension edit
Trivia edit
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 11 times in essays, 64 times in fiction, and 199 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 279 times, making it the 182nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
See also edit
References edit
Further reading edit
- wy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wy”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Renata Bronikowska (22.06.2021) “WY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wy”, in Słownik języka polskiego[2]
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wy”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[3]
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wy”, in Słownik języka polskiego[4] (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 791
Silesian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Polish wy.
Pronoun edit
wy
- plural second person pronoun; you
Declension edit
Etymology 2 edit
Preposition edit
wy
- Alternative form of w, used mostly before words that begin with consonant clusters
Further reading edit
- wy in silling.org
Upper Sorbian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos.
Pronoun edit
wy
- you (second-person plural)
Declension edit
First person pronouns | ||||||||
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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 |
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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 |
Further reading edit
- “wy” in Soblex
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 | |||
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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. |
References edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “wy”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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
Number | Person | Nominative | Objective | Possessive | |||
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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