different between wye vs yay

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa?/
• Homophones: y, Y, why (wine-whine merger)

Alternative forms

• wy

Etymology 1

Attested as wi c. 1200. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps cognate with Old French ui or gui. However Old Irish had a glyph, a u with an i underneath it, and pronounced wye.

Noun

wye (plural wyes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Y.
2. A Y-shaped object: a wye level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track.

   Synonym: triangle

Derived terms

• wye cable
• wye switch

Translations

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Verb

wye (third-person singular simple present wyes, present participle wyeing or wying, simple past and past participle wyed)

1. (transitive, rail transport) To reverse the direction of a train using a wye.

Etymology 2

Old English wiga.

Noun

wye (plural wyes)

1. (poetic, obsolete) A warrior or fighter.
2. (poetic, obsolete) A hero; a man, person.

Anagrams

• Wey, wey, yew

Dakaka

Alternative forms

• we (Baiap)
• wie (Sesivi)

Noun

wye

1. (West Ambryn) water

References

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: y?, IPA^(key): /je?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: yea

Etymology 1

Alteration of yea (“yes; even, truly, verily”). More at yea.

Alternative forms

• yea

Interjection

yay

1. (colloquial) An expression of happiness.

   Yay! I have finally finished my work!

2. Misspelling of yea.

Synonyms

• (an expression of happiness): hooray

Derived terms

• yayness

Translations

Adverb

yay (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of yea

   The tree was yay big.

See also

• nay

Etymology 2

From the sound it represents, by analogy with the other palatal letters chay and jay.

Noun

yay (plural yays)

1. The letter for the y sound in Pitman shorthand.

Related terms

• wye, the name of the Latin letter for this sound

Etymology 3

From Spanish llello.

Alternative forms

• yayo, yay-yo, yeyo

Noun

yay (uncountable)

1. (US, slang) Cocaine (powder or crack).
   • 2006, "They Shootin'", Vibe, December 2006:

     In Billy Corben's engrossing new documentary, Cocaine Cowboys (Magnolia Pictures), self-described "assassin" Jorge "Rivi" Ayala (among others) give up the goods on Miami's explosive early '80s yay trade.

   • 2009, Tyrone Pierson, Murder in the Moonlight, AuthorHouse (2009), ?ISBN, page 339:

     I'm in charge of a whole city block, and I always wear gloves when I touch the yay, cuz traces of cocaine show up on my u. a., when I touch it with my bare hands.

   • 2012, Azealia Banks, "Liquorice", 1991:

     I don't do yay, but if you want to, fine

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:cocaine.

Anagrams

• ayy

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [j?j]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *y?y (“summer”).

Noun

yay (definite accusative yay?, plural yaylar)

1. summer

See also

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *y?(y) (“bow”).

Noun

yay (definite accusative yay?, plural yaylar)

1. bow (a weapon used for shooting arrows)

Declension

References

Middle English

Pronoun

yay

1. Alternative form of þei (“they”)

Ojibwe

Particle

yay

1. exclamation

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (yay), from Proto-Turkic *y?(y) (“bow”).

Cognate with Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar yay Gagauz yay or yay?, Bashkir ???? (yäyä) or ?? (yan), Chuvash ?? (?u), Nogai ?? (yay), Khakas ????? (çacax), Karaim yay, Karakalpak jay, Kazakh ??? (jay), Kyrgyz ??? (caa) ,Southern Altai ??? (?aa, “bow”), Tatar ???? (cäyä) ,Turkmen ýaaý, Uzbek yoy,Tuvan ?? (ça), Uyghur ??? (ya) etc.

Noun

yay (definite accusative yay?, plural yaylar)

1. bow (weapon)

Etymology 2

Verb

yay

1. second-person singular imperative of yaymak