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English
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Etymology
From Middle English whey, wheye, whei, from Old English hwǣġ, hwæiġ, hwæġ, hweġ (“whey”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwaij (“whey”) (compare Saterland Frisian Waai, Woaie, West Frisian waai, Dutch wei, Low German Wei, German Low German Wei), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey- (“to pile up, build”) (compare Old Church Slavonic чинъ (činŭ, “order”), Ancient Greek ποιέω (poiéō, “to pile up, make”), Sanskrit कय (káya, “every one”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
whey (usually uncountable, plural wheys)
- The liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained in the process of making cheese.
1805, Songs for the Nursery, page 23:Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a little spider, Who sat down beside her, And frighted Miss Muffet away.
1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XX, in Wuthering Heights:{...} if I wished any blessing in the world, it was to find him a worthy object of pride; and I’m bitterly disappointed with the whey-faced, whining wretch!
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Translations
liquid remaining after milk has been curdled
- Albanian: hirrë (sq) f, thartor (sq) m
- Arabic: شِرْش m (širš), مَاء الْجُبْن m (māʔ al-jubn), مَصْل m (maṣl)
- Egyptian Arabic: شرش m (šerš)
- Armenian: շիճուկ (hy) (šičuk)
- Azerbaijani: zərdab
- Basque: gazur
- Belarusian: сыро́ватка f (syróvatka)
- Breton: laezh-glas (br) m
- Bulgarian: сурова́тка (bg) f (surovátka)
- Catalan: xerigot (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 乳清 (jyu5 cing1)
- Mandarin: 乳清 (zh) (rǔqīng)
- Czech: syrovátka (cs) f
- Danish: valle (da) c
- Dutch: wei (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: selakto
- Estonian: vadak (et)
- Faroese: mysa f
- Finnish: hera (fi)
- French: petit-lait (fr) m
- Galician: soro (gl) m
- Georgian: შრატი (šraṭi)
- German: Molke (de) f
- Greek: ξινόγαλο (el) n (xinógalo), ορός γάλακτος m (orós gálaktos)
- Ancient: ὀρός m (orós)
- Hebrew: מֵי גְּבִינָה
- Hindi: दूध का पानी m (dūdh kā pānī), मठ्ठा m (maṭhṭhā)
- Hungarian: savó (hu)
- Icelandic: mysa (is) f
- Ido: selakto (io)
- Indonesian: air dadih (id), laktoserum
- Irish: meadhg m
- Italian: siero di latte m
- Japanese: 乳清 (ja) (にゅうせい, nyūsei)
- Kazakh: сарысу (sarysu)
- Khmer: ទឹកដោះថ្លា (tɨk dɑh thlaa)
- Korean: 유청(乳淸) (yucheong)
- Kyrgyz: сары суу (sarı suu)
- Latin: serum (la) n
- Latvian: sūkalas f pl
- Lithuanian: išrūgos f pl
- Luxembourgish: Wässeg m
- Macedonian: сурутка f (surutka), ѕира f (dzira)
- Malay: dadih susu, whey
- Maori: wai karera
- Norman: meigue
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: myse m
- Ossetian: сулу (sulu) (Digor dialect)
- Persian: آبپنیر (fa) (âb-panir), پنیرآب (panir-âb)
- Polish: serwatka (pl) f
- Portuguese: soro (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਪਨੀਰ ਪਾਣੀ m (panīr pāṇī)
- Romanian: zer (ro) n
- Russian: сы́воротка (ru) f (sývorotka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: су̏рутка f
- Roman: sȕrutka (sh) f
- Sicilian: seru m
- Slovak: srvátka (sk) f
- Slovene: sírotka (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: serowatka f, srowatka f
- Upper Sorbian: syrowatka f, syrwatka f
- Spanish: suero (es) m
- Swedish: vassle (sv) c, vassla (sv) c
- Tajik: зардоб (zardob)
- Tarifit: aɣi m
- Thai: หางนม (th) (hǎang-nom)
- Turkish: kesilmiş süt suyu, peynir altı suyu
- Ukrainian: сиро́ватка f (syróvatka), дзер m (dzer)
- Uzbek: zardob (uz)
- Vietnamese: váng sữa, nước sữa
- Welsh: maidd m
- Yiddish: סראָוועטקע f (srovetke), סיראָוועטקע f (sirovetke), סעראָוועטקע f (serovetke)
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Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English hwǣġ, hwæiġ, hwæġ, hweġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaij (“whey”).
Pronunciation
Noun
whey (uncountable)
- The leftovers from milk curdled during cheesemaking; whey.
- (rare) The result of strained almond milk.
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