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Aramaic
Pronunciation
Interjection
וי • (transliteration needed)
- woe!, alas!
References
- “wy”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press
Yiddish
- ױ (oy) — the single-character “vov yud” digraph
Letter
וי • (oy)
- A letter of the Yiddish alphabet, representing /ɔɪ̯/ in Standard YIVO Yiddish
