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w

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See also: W, w/, ա, ⴍ, and Appendix:Variations of "w"

w U+0077, w
LATIN SMALL LETTER W
← v
[U+0076] 		Basic Latin x →
[U+0078]
ʷ U+02B7, ʷ
MODIFIER LETTER SMALL W
← ʶ
[U+02B6] 		Spacing Modifier Letters ʸ →
[U+02B8]
ｗ U+FF57, ｗ
FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER W
← ｖ
[U+FF56] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ｘ →
[U+FF58]

Translingual edit

 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(file)

Letter edit

w (upper case W)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
  2. The first letter of callsigns allocated to American broadcast television and radio stations east of the Mississippi river.

Ligature edit

w (obsolete)

  1. ⟨uu⟩
  2. ⟨vv⟩

Symbol edit

 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

w

  1. (IPA) a voiced labial-velar (or, more precisely, labialized velar) approximant.
  2. (superscript ⟨ʷ⟩, IPA) labialization ([w]-coloring) or a consonant or vowel; or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [w].
    Specifically, on a vowel letter: an [u] off-glide (diphthong) or a protruded (as opposed to compressed) vowel, e.g. Swedish /yʷː/.
  3. (superscript ⟨ʷ⟩, NAPA) labialization.

Gallery edit

  • Letter styles
  •  
    Uppercase and lowercase versions of W, in normal and italic type
  •  
    Uppercase and lowercase W in Fraktur

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Other representations of W:

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ˈdʌbl̩.juː/, /ˈdʌbə.juː/, /ˈdʌbiː.(j)uː/, /ˈdʌb.juː/, /ˈdʌb.jə/, /ˈdʌb/, /ˈdʌbz/
Audio (US)(file)

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W, plural ws or w's)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, called double-u and written in the Latin script.
Derived terms edit
See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

Abbreviations.

w

  1. (stenoscript) the sound sequence /aʊ̯/.
  2. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of we.
  3. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of were.
  4. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of who and its inflection whom.

Noun edit

w

  1. watt
  2. west
  3. witness
  4. work
  5. Abbreviation of win.

Adjective edit

w

  1. (cricket) wide
  2. white
  3. (from noun sense 5) successful, admirable, good
    W rizz.

Preposition edit

w

  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of with.
    Alternative form: w/
    • 2013, Jessica Burkhart, Home for Christmas (Canterwood Crest; Super Special), New York, NY: Aladdin M!X, →ISBN, page 44:
      This was supposed 2 be a SURPRISE, but the girls got it out of me. ☺ I wanted all of us 2 spend Xmas 2gether. By all, I mean r horses 2. Sooo . . . B, C, G, Z, & D, you have guests waiting @ BC. Zane, Valentino, Scout, Nero, & Polo r there! Now we can ride r horses when we r not volunteering & spend Xmas w them. ☺
  2. with a wing (on the Enneagram)
    When Sharon took the Enneagram test, she came out as a 3w2.

Basque edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ube bikoi̯t͡s̻/, [u.β̞e̞ β̞i.ko̞i̯t͡s̻]

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Basque alphabet, called uve bikoitz and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes edit

  • Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

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Danish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /dɔbəlveː/, [ˈd̥ʌb̥əlˌveːˀ]

Letter edit

w (uppercase W)

  1. the twenty-third letter of the Danish alphabet

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Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also edit

  • Previous letter: v
  • Next letter: x

Egyptian edit

Pronunciation edit

Particle edit

wD35

 enclitic

  1. (Old Egyptian) not; used to negate the subjunctive or prospective in wishes and commands

Alternative forms edit

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of w  
w
w

Noun edit

wN23
Z1

 m

  1. area, district
  2. administrative district
  3. nome [since the New Kingdom]

Inflection edit

Declension of w (masculine)
singular w
dual wwj
plural ww

Alternative forms edit

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of w  
wZ1
N23
w
w w
[Old Kingdom]

Pronoun edit

w

 sg 1. enclitic (‘dependent’) pronoun

  1. Alternative form of wj (“I, me”)

References edit

Finnish edit

Etymology edit

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and w for information on the development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation edit

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. A letter of the Finnish alphabet, called kaksoisvee and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes edit

  • In the Finnish alphabet, w is a variant of v.
  • Used only in loanwords, old/archaic language and proper names with old spelling; see the usage notes for W.

See also edit

French edit

Pronunciation edit

Letter edit

w (uppercase W)

  1. w

Fula edit

Pronunciation edit

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes edit

See also edit

Gothic edit

Romanization edit

w

  1. Romanization of 𐍅

Haitian Creole edit

Pronoun edit

w

  1. Contraction of ou.

Hungarian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): [ˈv]
  • (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈduplɒveː]

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. A letter of the extended Hungarian alphabet, called dupla vé and written in the Latin script.

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative w w-k
accusative w-t w-ket
dative w-nek w-knek
instrumental w-vel w-kkel
causal-final w-ért w-kért
translative w-vé w-kké
terminative w-ig w-kig
essive-formal w-ként w-kként
essive-modal — —
inessive w-ben w-kben
superessive w-n w-ken
adessive w-nél w-knél
illative w-be w-kbe
sublative w-re w-kre
allative w-hez w-khez
elative w-ből w-kből
delative w-ről w-kről
ablative w-től w-ktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		w-é w-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		w-éi w-kéi
Possessive forms of w
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. w-m w-im
2nd person sing. w-d w-id
3rd person sing. w-je w-i
1st person plural w-nk w-ink
2nd person plural w-tek w-itek
3rd person plural w-jük w-ik

See also edit

Further reading edit

  • w in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Ido edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (context pronunciation) IPA(key): /w/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /we/

Letter edit

w (upper case W)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Indonesian edit

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (context pronunciation) IPA(key): /w/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /wɛ/

Letter edit

w (upper case W)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Etymology 2 edit

Pronoun edit

w

  1. (text messaging, slang) Abbreviation of gue.
    Synonym: gw

Italian edit

Letter edit

w f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case W)

  1. the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, called doppia vu or vu doppia in Italian

Usage notes edit

  • The letter W is not considered part of the Italian alphabet. It is found mainly in loanwords.

Japanese edit

Etymology edit

Short for (笑) (warai, “laughing”).

Punctuation mark edit

w

  1. (Internet slang, often repeated) LOL; an expression of amusement or laughter.
    このバカｗｗｗｗｗｗｗ(´∀`*)
    kono baka ｗｗｗｗｗｗｗ (´ ∀ ` *)
    you silly fool lol
    ちょ ｗｗｗ お前(まえ)のツイート伸(の)びすぎ ｗｗｗ 有(ゆう)名(めい)人(じん)じゃん ｗｗｗｗｗ
    cho ｗｗｗ omae no tsuīto nobisugi ｗｗｗ yūmeijin jan ｗｗｗｗｗ
    yo hol up, your tweet's crazy popular 🔥😂 you're goddamn famous 😂

Usage notes edit

  • w (w) can be used multiple times in a row, as in the examples above; it is sometimes repeated to quite lengthy extents.

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Kashubian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈv/ (before a voiced consonant)
  • IPA(key): /ˈf/ (before a voiceless consonant)
  • Syllabification: w

Etymology 1 edit

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and w for development of the glyph itself.

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vъ(n).

Preposition edit

w

  1. denotes inessive position; in, at, on
  2. denotes illative movement; into, in, to
  3. denotes an amount or number; in, as, in a group of
  4. denotes position in time; in, on
Alternative forms edit

Further reading edit

  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) chapter V, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego‎[3] (in Kashubian), page 241
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “w, we”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎[4], volume 2, page 1251
  • “w”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Lower Sorbian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): (before most vowels) /w/
  • Silent before consonants and word-initially before ⟨o⟩ and ⟨u⟩ (but not ⟨ó⟩)

Etymology 1 edit

Letter edit

w (upper case W)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Lower Sorbian alphabet, called wej and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2 edit

From Proto-Slavic *vъ(n), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én.

Alternative forms edit

  • we (especially before labial consonants and consonant clusters)

Preposition edit

w (with locative)

  1. in

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Malay edit

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Maltese edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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Etymology 2 edit

Conjunction edit

w

  1. Superseded spelling of u before or after a vowel.

Masurian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Polish w.

Pronunciation edit

Preposition edit

w

  1. denotes inessive position; in, at, on [+locative]
    • 2018, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Paweł Pogorzelski and Psioter ôt Sziatków (Piotr Szatkowski), Małi Princ [The Little Prince], →ISBN, page 23:
      Ém dumáł duchno ô abéntojrach w boru.
      I thought quickly about the weather in the forest.
  2. denotes position in time or age; in, on [+locative] or sometimes [+accusative]
    • 2018, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Paweł Pogorzelski and Psioter ôt Sziatków (Piotr Szatkowski), Małi Princ [The Little Prince], →ISBN, page 23:
      W tém sposobzie ôstaziułém zielgó malarskó kärijere, w swojém sóstém roku.
      This is how I left my great career as an artist, at six years pld.
  3. denotes illative movement; into, in, to [+accusative]

Navajo edit

Pronunciation edit

  1. IPA(key): /w/, /ɣ/

Letter edit

w (upper case W)

  1. A letter of the Navajo alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes edit

The letter ⟨w⟩ is used for the phoneme /w/, but also for /ɣ/ before a back vowel, where that is pronounced [ɣʷ].

Norwegian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ˈdɔbəlt.ˌʋeː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ʋ/, /v/
  • Audio(file)

Letter edit

w

  1. The 23rd letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Usage notes edit

  • Only appears in loanwords from e.g. German.

Nupe edit

Pronunciation edit

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also edit

Old Polish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vъ(n). First attested in the first half of the 14th century.

Pronunciation edit

Preposition edit

w

  1. denotes illative movement; into [+accusative]
    1. denotes contact because of movement, i.e. to bump into something [+accusative]
  2. denotes allative movement; to, towards [+accusative]
  3. used in temporal constructions to create adverbs from nouns [+accusative]
  4. denotes a goal or aim; for [+accusative] or [+locative]
  5. denotes function; in the role of; as [+accusative] or [+locative]
  6. denotes a manner; in [+accusative] or [+locative]
  7. denotes instrumental usage [+accusative] or [+locative]
  8. used with some nouns to denote physical or temporal measure [+accusative] or [+locative]
  9. denotes the amount of participants [+accusative]
  10. denotes a change of state; into [+accusative]
  11. denotes the intended addressee of a statement; at [+accusative] or [+locative]
  12. used in some syntactical constructions with verbs [+accusative]
  13. denotes inessive position; in [+locative]
  14. denotes position in time; in [+locative]
  15. denotes cause; because of [+locative]
  16. used in some noun constructions to denote "in the pattern of" [+locative]
  17. denotes state; in [+locative]

Derived terms edit

adverb
preposition

Descendants edit

  • Masurian: w
  • Polish: w, we
  • Silesian: w, we, wy

References edit

Polish edit

Etymology 1 edit

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and w for development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation edit

IPA(key): /v/, or IPA(key): /f/ if devoiced

Letter edit

w (upper case W, lower case)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Polish alphabet, called wu and written in the Latin script.
See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Old Polish w.

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Preposition edit

w

  1. denotes inessive position; in, at, on [+locative]
    Od roku mieszkam we Francji. ― I've lived in France for a year.
    On siedzi w więzieniu za morderstwo. ― He's in prison for murder.
    Widziałam cię wczoraj w pociągu. ― I saw you on the train yesterday.
  2. denotes position in time; in, on [+locative] or sometimes [+accusative]
    Urodziłem się w czerwcu. ― I was born in June.
    W niedzielę zawsze chodzimy do kościoła. ― We always go to church on Sundays.
    W zeszłym roku podróżowaliśmy po Europie. ― Last year we travelled around Europe.
  3. denotes state; in [+locative]
    Byłem w szoku po wypadku. ― I was in shock after the accident.
    Kupił dziewczynie naszyjnik w postaci serca. ― He bought his girlfriend a necklace in the shape of a heart.
  4. denotes approximate position; at [+locative]
    Musi być coś, w czym jesteś dobry? ― There must be something you're good at?
  5. denotes illative movement; into, in, to [+accusative]
    Włożył koszulę w spodnie. ― He tucked his shirt into his trousers.
    Uderzyłem go prosto w twarz. ― I hit him right in the face.
    Skręć w lewo za pocztą. ― Turn (to the) left after the post office.
  6. denotes a change of state; into [+accusative]
    Stary młyn przekształcono w nowoczesne mieszkania. ― They turned the old mill into modern apartments.
    Pokrój ziemniaki w małe kawałki. ― Cut the potatoes into small pieces.
  7. used in some noun constructions to denote "in the pattern of" decorated with [+accusative]
    koszula w kratkę ― plaid shirt
    geopard w cętki. ― A spotted leopard
    Miała na sobie długą, granatową suknię w złote gwiazdki. ― She was wearing a long, dark blue dress decorated with little gold stars.
  8. denotes length of time; within, in the space of, in [+accusative]
    Synonyms: w ciągu, w przeciągu, na przestrzeni
    Cały egzamin skończyłem w godzinę. ― I finished the whole exam within an hour.
  9. denotes an amount or number; in, as, in a group of [+accusative]
    Zróbmy coś fajnego, tylko w dwójkę. ― Let's do something fun, just the two of us.
    Byliśmy w piątkę. ― We were in a group of five/There were five of us.
    W tę grę można grać w cztery osoby. ― You can play this game as a foursome.
Usage notes edit

Some combinations of sounds, chiefly consonant clusters at the beginning of the following noun, require that this preposition be used in the vocalized form we. Examples:

  • we włosach ― in the hair
  • we Wrocławiu ― in Wrocław

But:

  • w Warszawie ― in Warsaw

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), w is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 3570 times in scientific texts, 4769 times in news, 3819 times in essays, 2589 times in fiction, and 1569 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 16316 times, making it the 1st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “w”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 650, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 2

Further reading edit

Portuguese edit

Pronunciation edit

Letter name:

Phoneme:

  • IPA(key): /w/, /v/ (used in loanwords, varies according to the source language of the borrowed term)

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also edit

Romani edit

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. A letter used to represent the voiced labial-velar approximant (/w/) in the International Standard orthography.

References edit

  • Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “w”, in ニューエクスプレス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 16

Romanian edit

Pronunciation edit

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called dublu ve or dublu vî and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes edit

Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

See also edit

Silesian edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and w for development of the glyph itself.

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Silesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Old Polish w.

Preposition edit

w

  1. denotes inessive position; in, at, on [+locative]
    Synonym: (with some countries and regions) na
  2. denotes illative movement; into, in, to [+accusative]
  3. denotes a position or post, or a position in a social hierarchy; in [+locative]
  4. used in some noun constructions to denote "in the pattern of" decorated with [+accusative]
  5. denotes worn item; dressed in [+locative]
  6. denotes length of time; within, in the space of, in [+accusative]
  7. denotes position in time; in, on [+locative]
  8. denotes an amount or number; in, as, in a group of [+accusative]
Alternative forms edit

Further reading edit

  • w in silling.org

Slovincian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vъ(n).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈv/ (before a voiced consonant)
  • IPA(key): /ˈf/ (before a voiceless consonant)
  • Syllabification: w

Preposition edit

w

  1. denotes illative movement; into, in, to [+accusative]
  2. denotes position in time; in, on [+accusative]
  3. denotes inessive position; in, at, on [+locative]
  4. denotes position in time; in, on [+locative]

Derived terms edit

prefixes

Further reading edit

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): (phoneme) /w/, /ɡw/, /β/
  • IPA(key): (letter name) /ˌube ˈdoble/ [ˌu.β̞e ˈð̞o.β̞le]
  • IPA(key): (letter name) /ˈdoble ˌbe/ [ˈd̪o.β̞le ˌβ̞e]

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. the 24th letter of the Spanish alphabet

Swedish edit

Pronunciation edit

Letter name
Phoneme
  • IPA(key): /v/, (rare, in foreign loanwords) /w/

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Swedish alphabet, called dubbel-ve and written in the Latin script. Previously treated as a variant of the letter v and not as its own independent letter.

Usage notes edit

  • In blackletter typography, w was commonly used instead of v. When printers (gradually during the 19th century) changed to Latin typography, spelling changed from w to v, except in some family names. However, this change does not count as a spelling reform.
  • In many abbreviations, Swedes say v (ve, as in German) instead of w (dubbelve), e.g. BMW (be emm ve), VW (ve ve), WC (ve se), WHO (ve hå o), WWW (ve ve ve).

Noun edit

w

  1. (slang) weed (marijuana)

See also edit

References edit

Tagalog edit

Etymology edit

From English w. Each pronunciation has a different source:

  • Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English w.
  • Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character ᜏ (wa).

Formerly, the letter u was used to represent /w/ in the Spanish-based orthography.

Pronunciation edit

  • (letter name, Filipino alphabet): IPA(key): /ˈdobolju/, [ˈdo.bol.jʊ]

  • (letter name, Abakada alphabet): IPA(key): /wa/, [wɐ]
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /w/, [w]
  • Rhymes: -obolju, -a
  • Hyphenation: w

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W, Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜊᜓᜎ᜔ᜌᜓ)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Filipino alphabet), called dobolyu and written in the Latin script.

See also edit

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W, Baybayin spelling ᜏ)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abakada alphabet), called wa and written in the Latin script.

Further reading edit

  • “w”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Turkmen edit

Pronunciation edit

Letter edit

w (upper case W)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called we and written in the Latin script.

See also edit

Welsh edit

Etymology 1 edit

Alternative forms edit

  • (with grave accent to indicate otherwise unpredictable short vowel): ẁ
  • (with acute accent to indicate unusually stressed short vowel): ẃ
  • (with circumflex to indicate otherwise unpredictable or unusually stressed long vowel or disyllabicity): ŵ
  • (with diaeresis to indicate disyllabicity): ẅ

Pronunciation edit

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called w and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by u and followed by y.
Mutation edit
  • w cannot be mutated but when representing a vowel, does take h-prothesis, for example with the word wy (“egg”):
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 edit
  • Digraph sequences: wy
See also edit

Noun edit

w f (plural ŵau)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter W.
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
w unchanged unchanged hw
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology 2 edit

Alternative forms edit

  • (in negative statements; also in affirmative statements in North Wales): dw
  • (in affirmative statements): rw

Pronunciation edit

Usage notes edit

This word is usually found in conjunction with the pronoun i and so may be pronounced as part of a diphthong /ʊi̯/ or as /wiː/.

Verb edit

w

  1. (South Wales) first-person singular present colloquial of bod (in affirmative or negative statements)
    W i yn y car.
    I’m in the car.
    W i ddim yn hapus.
    I’m not happy.
Related terms edit
  • ydw (interrogative)

White Hmong edit

Noun edit

w

  1. quail

Verb edit

w

  1. scatter

Yoruba edit

Pronunciation edit

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called wí and written in the Latin script.

See also edit

Zhuang edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

w (1957–1982 spelling ɯ)

  1. gum (in the eye)

Zulu edit

Letter edit

w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also edit

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