different between wey vs yey

English

Etymology

From Middle English weie, waie, weihe, wæ?e, from Old English w?? (“a weight; a tool for weighing, balance, scale”), from Proto-West Germanic *w?gu, from Proto-Germanic *w?g? (“scales; weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *we??- (“to move, bring, transport”). Cognate with German Waage (“weight”), Icelandic vág (“a weight”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?, IPA^(key): /we?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophones: way, weigh, whey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

wey (plural weys)

1. (uncommon, archaic) An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
   • c. 1376, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, Version B, Passus 5, Line 91:

     Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese.

   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 208:

     Cheese and salt are purchased by the wey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds.

Anagrams

• Wye, wye, yew

Middle English

Noun

wey

1. Alternative form of whey

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

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Conjunction

wey

1. that

Pronoun

wey

1. who

Spanish

Etymology

Variant of güey, representing the relaxed pronunciation of the /?w/ sounds.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wei/, [?wei?]
• Rhymes: -ej

Noun

wey m or f (plural weyes)

1. (Mexico, colloquial slang, eye dialect, Internet) chump, punk, dumbass, idiot, jerk
2. (colloquial, Internet) dude, guy, buddy

   Synonyms: carnal, cuate, tonto, bato

Usage notes

• Due to the popularization of memes using Mexican slang all over Latin America through social networks, the word is heavily used on the internet by non-Mexicans and sometimes employed in spoken language.

English

Interjection

yey

1. Alternative spelling of yay

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yeg, cognate with Old Turkic ????????????? (y²ig), Turkmen ýeg, Turkish yey, ye?, possibly with Chuvash ?? (?i, “up, upper”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jej] (Jabrayil, Gadabay, Goychay, Göygöl, Imishli, Meghri, Shamakhi, Tartar)
• IPA^(key): [je?] (Quba, Ordubad)

Adjective

yey (obsolete or dialectal)

1. good, better

   Synonyms: eyi, yax??, yax??raq

Further reading

• “yey” in Obastan.com.

Classical Nahuatl

Numeral

yey

1. Obsolete spelling of ?yi

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *ja?, itself from Proto-Celtic *yegis. Cognate with Irish oighear, Scottish Gaelic eigh, and Welsh iâ.

Noun

yey m

1. ice

References

• http://www.cornishdictionary.org.uk/

Pipil

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *e?y?, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pahi. Compare Classical Nahuatl ?yi (“three”). Cognate with Yaqui baji (“three”) and Hopi pàayo' (“three”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /je?j/

Numeral

y?y

1. three