Wei
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Mandarin Chinese 魏 (Wèi).
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Wei
- (historical) An ancient Chinese march during the Zhou dynasty
- 1991, Gao Yuan, “Stratagem 2: Besiege the kingdom of Wei to save the kingdom of Zhao”, in Lure the Tiger out of the Mountains: The Thirty-six Stratagems of Ancient China[1], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 27:
- TO ASSAULT a strong and cohesive enemy head-on is to invite disaster. The stratagem of besieging the kingdom of Wei to save the kingdom of Zhao advocates indirect confrontation.
- (historical) Liang, the realm of the earlier march after its elevation to a kingdom
- (historical) A kingdom during the Three Kingdoms interregnum following China's Han dynasty.
- 1979, Kuo-ch'ing Tu, edited by William Schultz, Li Ho[2], Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 59:
- After the Empire of Han was taken over by Wei (220) in the fifth year of the Ch’ing-lung period (237), the statue was moved from Ch’ang-an, the capital of Han, to Hsü-ch’ang, the capital of Wei, in modern Honan province.
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Etymology 2 edit
From Mandarin Chinese 衞/卫 (Wèi).
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Wei
Etymology 3 edit
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Wei
- A river in China, a tributary of the Yellow River.
- Synonym: Wei River
Further reading edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wei”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3430, column 1
- Wei at Google Ngram Viewer
Anagrams edit
East Central German edit
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Noun edit
Wei m
Further reading edit
- Alte und neue Gedichte und Geschichten in erzgebirgischer Mundart, 12. Heft., P. 26
- Manfred Blechschmidt, Behüt eich fei dos Licht Ein Weihnachtsbuch des Erzgebirges P. 165
- Pfarrer Wild'sche und einige andre Gedichte, P. 11
German Low German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German wei, from Old Saxon *hwei, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaij (“whey”).
Noun edit
Wei f (no plural)
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Luxembourgish edit
Etymology edit
From Old High German wīhī. Cognate with German Weihe.
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Noun edit
Wei f (plural Weien)
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Pennsylvania German edit
Etymology edit
Compare German Wein, Dutch wijn, English wine.
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Wei m
Sathmar Swabian edit
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Wei m
References edit
- Claus Stephani, Volksgut der Sathmarschwaben (1985)