wy

• wye

wy (plural wies)

1. 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.

• YW, yw

• IPA^(key): /vəi/

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wy

1. Obsolete form of ons.

From Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos.

• IPA^(key): /wɨ/

wy pl

1. you (plural and formal)

IPA^(key): /ɥ/

wy (upper case Wy)

1. A letter of the Mfumte alphabet.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vy. First attested in the 14th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /vɨ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /vɨ/

wy

1. plural second person pronoun; you
2. polite singular second person pronoun; you

• Polish: wy
• Silesian: wy

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wy”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “wy”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Polish wy.

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• Rhymes: -ɘ
• Syllabification: wy

wy

1. plural second person pronoun; you
2. (dated) polite singular second person pronoun; you

   Synonyms: (for men) pan, (for women) pani

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]

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

• 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
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wy”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wy”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 791

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɪ
• Syllabification: wy

Inherited from Old Polish wy.

wy

1. plural second person pronoun; you

wy

1. Alternative form of w, used mostly before words that begin with consonant clusters

• wy in silling.org

From Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos.

wy

1. you (second-person plural)

• “wy” in Soblex

From Middle Welsh wy, from Old Welsh ui, from Proto-Celtic *āwyom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /uːɨ̯/
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ʊi̯/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /wiː/
• Rhymes: -ʊɨ̯

wy m (plural wyau)

1. egg

• gwyn wy
• melyn wy
• wy Pasg
• wyfa, wygell (“ovary”)

• 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

From Old Frisian wī, from Proto-West Germanic *wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy-, plural of *éǵh₂.

• (Clay) IPA^(key): /vɛi̯/
• (Wood) IPA^(key): /vi/

wy

1. we (first-person plural nominative pronoun)

• “wy”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011