wy
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
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.
TranslationsEdit
name of the letter Y, y — see wye
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
wy
- Obsolete form of ons.
Lower SorbianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
wy pl
- you (plural and formal)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of the second-person pronouns
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
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.
MfumteEdit
PronunciationEdit
LetterEdit
wy (upper case Wy)
- A letter of the Mfumte alphabet.
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Old Polish wy, from Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
wy
- you (second person plural, familiar or to younger people)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of wy
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
Upper SorbianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos.
PronounEdit
wy
- you (second-person plural)
DeclensionEdit
Upper Sorbian personal pronouns
First person pronouns | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | æe (after preposition) tebje |
waju | was | |||||
Dative | æi (after preposition) tebi |
wamaj | wam | |||||
Accusative | æe (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 |
WelshEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Welsh wy, from Old Welsh ui, from Proto-Celtic *āwyom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.
PronunciationEdit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /uːɨ̯/
- (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /ʊi̯/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /wiː/
- Rhymes: -ʊɨ̯
NounEdit
wy m (plural wyau)
Derived termsEdit
MutationEdit
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. |
West FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Frisian wī, from Proto-West Germanic *wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy-, plural of *éǵh₂.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
wy
- we (first-person plural nominative pronoun)
InflectionEdit
West Frisian personal pronouns
Number | Person | Nominative | Objective | Possessive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 readingEdit
- “wy”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011