# wei
## Anakalangu
### Noun

wei
* water

### Further reading

* ABVD

## Baluan-Pam
### Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *waiʀ, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

### Noun

wei
* water (clear liquid H₂O)

### References

* The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic (2007, →ISBN

## Bavarian
### Alternative forms

* wäu (East Central Bavarian, Vienna)
* weil (Southern Bavarian)

### Etymology

From the accusative of Middle High German wīle, from Old High German wīla, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīlu, from Proto-Germanic *hwīlō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɑɛ̯/, [βɑɛ̯]

### Conjunction

wei (West Central Bavarian)
* because, given that

#### Related terms

* dawei
* Wei

## Central Masela
### Noun

wei
* 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.

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʋɛi̯/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛi̯
* Hyphenation: wei
* Homophone: wij

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wei, from Old Dutch *wei, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaij (“whey”).

#### Noun

wei f (uncountable)
* a product obtained from milk; whey [First attested in the early 14th century.]
    Synonyms: hui, melkwei
    Een van de nevenproducten van melk is wei. ― One of the byproducts of milk is whey.
* (obsolete) serum, a component of blood which does not play a role in clotting
    Synonyms: serum, bloedserum
    De centrifuge scheidt het stolsel van de wei. ― The centrifuge separates the coagulated blood from the serum.

##### Derived terms

* bloedwei
* weiboter
* weikaas
* weiroom
* weivocht

### Etymology 2

Alteration of weide with regular syncope of intervocalic -d-; compare weder / weer, leder / leer, lade / la, and so forth.

#### Noun

wei f (plural weiden, diminutive weitje n)
* Alternative form of weide

### Anagrams

* wie

## Folopa
### Noun

wẹị or węi
* (Boro, Tebera) water

#### Synonyms

* wị (Suri)
* ipi (Sopese)

### References

* Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67 (as wẹị)
* Folopa wordlist
* Carol Anderson, Beginning Folopa Language Lessons and Simple Glossary (2010) (as węi)

## Kambera
### Alternative forms

* wai (Lewa)

### Noun

wei
* (Southern, Umbu Ratu Nggai) 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.

## Kedang
### Noun

wei
* water (clear liquid H₂O)

### References

* Ursula Samely, Robert H. Barnes, A Dictionary of the Kedang Language: Kedang-Indonesian-English

## Khasi
### Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *wiː. Cognate with Pnar wi.

### Numeral

wei
* one

## Lou
### Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *waiʀ, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

### Noun

wei
* water (clear liquid H₂O)

### References

* ABVD

## Luxembourgish
### Verb

wei
* second-person singular imperative of weien

## Mandarin
### Romanization

wei (wei$^5$／wei$^0$, Zhuyin ˙ㄨㄟ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 煀
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 喂

### Romanization

wei
* Nonstandard spelling of wēi.
* Nonstandard spelling of wéi.
* Nonstandard spelling of wěi.
* Nonstandard spelling of wèi.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Middle English
### Noun

wei
* Alternative spelling of way

## Shina
### Noun

wei
* water

### References

* Peter C. Backstrom, et Carla F. Radloff, “Languages of northern areas”, in Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, vol. 2, National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University and Summer Institute of Linguistics, Islamabad, 1992, page 341

## Trió
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *weju.

### Noun

wei
* sun

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian wei, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.

### Pronunciation

* (Clay) IPA: /vai̯/
* (Wood) IPA: /vɛi̯/

### Noun

wei c (plural wegen, diminutive weike)
* road
* way

#### Derived terms

* spoarwei

#### Further reading

* “wei (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011