# wi
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /wɪ/
* Rhymes: -ɪ

### Etymology 1

Variant of we.

#### Pronoun

wi (personal pronoun)
* (Geordie) us
    Are yee commin with wi or not?

### Etymology 2

Variant of with.

#### Preposition

wi
* (Yorkshire) with
    Are-ta doin owt wi this?

### Anagrams

* I.W.

## Abinomn
### Noun

wi
* water
* rain

## Agutaynen
### Etymology

From Proto-Kalamian *waʔi, *waʔikʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wiiʔ/

### Noun

wi
* water

### Further reading

* Ronald S. Himes, The Kalamian microgroup of Philippine languages, in the Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, 17-20 January 2006, Palawan, Philippines, (2006, Linguistic Society of the Philippines and SIL International), page 7
* Mga bitalang pangaldaw-kaldaw ,An Agutaynen-Filipino-English Phrasebook (2006, SIL Philippines)

## Ajië
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [wi]

### Noun

wi
* man

### References

* Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
* Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

## Alemannic German
### Alternative forms

* Wii, Wi, Wy
* wii, wéin (Italian Walser)

### Etymology

From Middle High German wīn, from Old High German wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Latin vīnum.

### Noun

wi m
* (Gressoney, Carcoforo, Rimella and Campello Monti) wine

### References

* Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

## Caac
### Verb

wi
* to bite

### References

* Claire Moyse-Faurie, Constructions expressing middle, reflexive and reciprocal situations in some Oceanic languages, in Reciprocals and Reflexives: Theoretical and Typological Explorations

## Cameroon Pidgin
### Pronoun

wi
* Alternative spelling of we (“1st person plural subject and object personal pronoun”)

### Determiner

wi
* Alternative spelling of we (“1st person plural possessive determiner”)

## Chaap Wuurong
### Noun

wi
* fire

### References

* 1993, among the La Trobe working papers in linguistics, volumes 6-8, page 8:
    The Wimmera language and Tjapwurrung can be distinguished by the following criterial words: [English] Wimmera Tjapwurrung […] fire wanyap wi(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Egyptian
### Romanization

wi
* Manuel de Codage transliteration of wj.

## Fijian
### Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *wī; cognate with Samoan wī, Tongan vī and Hawaiian wī.

### Noun

wi
* ambarella, Spondias dulcis.

### References

* Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “wii”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* Gatty, Ronald (2009) “wi”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 323

## Folopa
### Noun

wị
* (Suri) water

#### Synonyms

* wẹị (Boro, Tebera)
* ipi (Sopese)

### References

* Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67

## Fyam
### Noun

wi
* sun

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French oui.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wi/

### Adverb

wi
* yes

#### Antonyms

* non

## Iban
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *hui, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quay, from Proto-Austronesian *quay (“rattan”). Cognate with Old Javanese hwi, Tagalog uway.

### Noun

wi
* rattan

## Jamaican Creole
### Etymology

Derived from English we. Compare Sranan Tongo wi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwiː/
* Hyphenation: wi

### Pronoun

wi
* we
    Wi cyaan tek it nuh more! ― We can't take it any more.
** 2011, Richard Bingy Brown, Living the Dream (in English), →ISBN, page 58:“If de herbs wi get is good, dem will want lots more by next week […] ”
* our
    Wi house a buil' a St. Catherine.Our new house is being built in St. Catherine.
** 1986, Michael Parchment, My Freedom Voice (in Jamaican Creole), page 11:“All di nice time was fi dem, Dem tek wi black sista and use dem, Dem starve we di men, Wanting us not to be friend. Thinking we ago rebel against dem […] ”Only they enjoyed themselves, They took away our black sisters and used them, They starved us -- the men, They didn't want us to be friends. They thought we would rebel against them […]
* us
    Dem see wi a mek it an' dem vex.They see us getting ahead and they're angry.
** 2010, Dave Collymore, 平和と愛の詩的表現: Poetic Expressions of Peace and Love (in English), →ISBN, page 128:“(Weh mi seh) young people mek wi arise Mek wi trus God, pon him wi depen […] ”(What did I say?) Young people let us arise Let us trust God who we depend on […]

#### Related terms

* mi
* yuh
* im
* har
* shi
* unnu
* dem

### Further reading

* Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 594
* wi – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary

## Japanese
### Romanization

wi
* Rōmaji transcription of ゐ
* Rōmaji transcription of ヰ
* Rōmaji transcription of うぃ
* Rōmaji transcription of ウィ

## Kom (Cameroon)
### Noun

wi (plural ghɨki)
* woman, female
* wife

### References

* Randy Jones, Provisional Kom - English lexicon (2001, Yaoundé, Cameroon)

## Kumak
### Noun

wi
* water

### References

* I. Bril, Dictionnaire Nelemwa-Nixumwak (2000)

## Mauritian Creole
### Etymology

From French oui.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wi/

### Adverb

wi
* yes; a word used to indicate agreement or acceptance

#### Antonyms

* non

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch wī

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wiː/

### Pronoun

wi
* we

#### Descendants

* Dutch: wij

### Further reading

* “wi”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “wi (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

## Middle Low German
### Alternative forms

* wy

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wiː/
* (possibly, can't be discerned from written language) Stem vowel: ê⁴
** IPA: /wiə/, /wiɛ/

### Etymology 1

From Old Saxon wī, from Proto-West Germanic *wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *wiz.

#### Pronoun

wî
* (personal, first person singular nominative) we

##### Declension

For an explanation of the forms in brackets see here.

##### Descendants

* Dutch Low Saxon: wi
* German Low German: wi, wî
    Plautdietsch: wie

### Etymology 2

From Old Saxon hwē or a dialectal variation thereof, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz.

#### Pronoun

wî
* (interrogative) Alternative form of wê.

## North Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian wī, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy.

### Pronoun

wi (Föhr-Amrum)
* we (first-person plural personal pronoun)

#### Alternative forms

* 'f (reduced form)
* we (Mooring)
* wü (Sylt)

### See also

* The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts.
* At is not enclitic; it can stand in any unstressed position and refers mostly to things. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur.
* Dual forms wat / onk and jat / jonk are obsolete, as is feminine jü / hör.
* Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents.
* The forms üsens, jamens, hörens are used optionally (and decreasingly) when the possessor is a larger community, such as a village, city or nation.

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy.

### Pronoun

wī
* we

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: wi
** Dutch: wij

#### Further reading

* “wi”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old Frisian
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy.

### Pronoun

wī (accusative ūs, genitive ūser, dative ūs)
* we

#### Descendants

* North Frisian: wi, wü
* Saterland Frisian: wie
* West Frisian: wy

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy.

### Pronoun

wī
* we

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: wî, wy
** Dutch Low Saxon: wi
** German Low German: wi, wî
    Plautdietsch: wie

## Ottawa
### Pronoun

wi inan sg (plural niwi)
* that

### References

Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 123

## Pnar
### Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *wiː, likely from Proto-Mon-Khmer *muuj ~ *muəj ~ *muuɲ with the loss of initial *m-. Cognate with Khasi wei.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wi/

### Numeral

wi
* (cardinal number) one

## Scots
### Preposition

wi
* with

#### Alternative forms

* wi'

## Seychellois Creole
### Etymology

From French oui.

### Interjection

wi
* yes

## Shuar
### Pronoun

wi
* I, first person singular

### References

* Chicham: Dictionario Enciclopédico Shuar-Castellano

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From English we. Compare Jamaican Creole wi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wi/

### Pronoun

wi
* we, us

### Determiner

wi
* our

## Tocharian B

cardinal numbers :
| Previous: | ṣe |
| Next: | trai |

### Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Compare Tocharian A wu.

### Numeral

wi m or f
* two

## Vilamovian
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

wi
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## West Makian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wi/

### Noun

wi
* tooth

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

## Yola
### Preposition

wi
* Alternative form of wee (“with”)
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 32:A war cowdealeen wi ooree.They were scolding with one another.
** 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 6-7:wi vengem o' core t'gie oure zense o' ye gradès whilke be ee-dighte wi yer name;to pour forth from the strength of our hearts, our sense of the qualities which characterise your name,
** 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 9-11:Yn ercha an aul o' while yt beeth wi gleezom o' core th' oure eyen dwytheth apan ye Vigere o'dicke Zouvereine, Wilyame ee Vourthe,In each and every condition it is with joy of heart that our eyes rest upon the representative of that Sovereign, William IV.,
** 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 6-8:Na oure gladès ana whilke we dellt wi' mattoke, an zing t'oure caulès wi plou,In our valleys where we were digging with the spade, or as we whistled to our horses in the plough,
** 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 9-10:Wi Irishmen owre generale hopes be ee-bond——With Irishmen our common hopes are inseparably bound up——
** 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 12-14:shorne o'lournagh an ee-vilt wi benisons, an yerzel an oure gude Zovereine,free from melancholy and full of blessings, for yourself and our good Sovereign,

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 32

## Yoruba
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

IPA: /wí/

#### Noun

wí
* The name of the Latin-script letter W/w.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) lẹ́tà; á, bí, dí, é, ẹ́, fí, gí, gbì, hí, í, jí, kí, lí, mí, ní, ó, ọ́, pí, rí, sí, ṣí, tí, ú, wí, yí

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* gwí

#### Pronunciation

IPA: /wí/

#### Verb

wí
* to say
    Synonyms: ní, sọ, fọ̀

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

IPA: /wī/

#### Verb

wi
* (transitive) to throb

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wì/

#### Verb

wì
* to singe; to scorch
    Synonyms: sun, yan
    Òòrẹ̀ ní ń ṣẹ́gi tí a ó fi wì í ― The porcupine gathers the wood with which we will singe it