# wey
## 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

* enPR: wā, IPA: /weɪ/
* Rhymes: -eɪ
* Homophones: way, weigh; whey (wine–whine merger)

### Noun

wey (plural weys)
* (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

* Wye, wye, yew

## Akatek
### Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *way-

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bej/

### Verb

wey
* (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

* wei, weie, wai, way

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wæi̯/

#### Noun

wey (plural weys)
* way

##### Descendants

* English: way
* Scots: wey, way
* Yola: wye, waie

##### References

* “wei, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

wey
* Alternative form of whey

## Nigerian Pidgin
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Conjunction

wey
* that

### Pronoun

wey
* who

## Pipil
### Adjective

wey (plural wejwey or wejweymet)
* big

### Further reading

* Campbell, L. (1985). The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton De Gruyter.
* Lara-Martínez, R., McCallister, R. Glosario cultural náwat pipil y nicarao.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Variant of güey, representing the relaxed pronunciation of the /ɡw/ sounds.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwei/ [ˈwei̯]
* Rhymes: -ei
* Syllabification: wey

### Noun

wey m (plural weyes)
* (Mexico, colloquial slang, eye dialect, Internet) chump, punk, dumbass, idiot, jerk
* (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.

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From Dutch weide.

### Noun

wey
* pasture