weylawey
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old English wā lā wā, weg-lā-weg, wei-lā-wei, wī-lā-wei.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: wey‧la‧wey
Interjection edit
weylawey
- A general interjection expressing distress, regret, or sorrow: alack, alas, lackaday.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xv, recto, column 2:
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ “wei-lā̆-wei, interj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 October 2018.