wey

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English

Etymology

From Middle English weie, waie, weihe, wæȝe, from Old English wǣġ (“a weight; a tool for weighing, balance, scale”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales; weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move, bring, transport”). Cognate with German Waage (“weight”), Icelandic vág (“a weight”).

Pronunciation

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.
    • 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge‎, volume 27, page 202:
      Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6½ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. […] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 208:
      Cheese and salt are purchased by the wey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds.
    • 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms‎, page 410:
      WEY, WEIGH, an English measure of weight; for wool, equal to 6½ tods of 28 lbs.; a load or five quarters of wheat; 40 bushels of salt, each 56 lbs.; 32 cloves of cheese, each 7 lbs.; 48 bushels of oats and barley; 2 to 3 cwt. of butter.

Anagrams

Akatek

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *way-

Pronunciation

Verb

wey

  1. (intransitive) to sleep

References

Preliminary Classic Maya ‐ English, English ‐ Classic Maya Vocabulary of Hieroglyphic Readings by Erik Boot 
2022. Akateko Living Dictionary. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. ( to sleep "wey" wav recording )

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

wey (plural weys)

  1. way
Descendants
  • English: way
  • Scots: wey
  • Yola: wye, waie
References

Etymology 2

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 /ɡw/ sounds.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwei/
  • Rhymes: -ei
  • Syllabification: wey

Noun

wey m (plural weyes)

  1. (Mexico, colloquial slang, eye dialect, Internet) chump, punk, dumbass, idiot, jerk
  2. (Mexico, colloquial, Internet, also Latin America) 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.
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