# wy
## English
### Alternative forms

* wye

### Noun

wy (plural wies)
* The name of the letter Y.
** 1856, Goold Brown, The First Lines of English Grammar, page 10:The names of the letters, as now commonly spoken and written in English, are A, Bee, Cee, Dee, E, Eff, Gee, Aitch, I, Jay, Kay, Ell, Em, En, O, Pee, Kue, Ar, Ess, Tee, U, Vee, Double-u, Ex, Wy, Zee.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* YW, yw

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vəi/
* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

wy
* Obsolete form of ons.

## Lower Sorbian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɨ/

### Pronoun

wy pl
* you (plural and formal)

#### Declension

¹ Both śi and tebje are used when no preposition precedes, but after a preposition only tebje is used.

## Mfumte
### Pronunciation

IPA: /ɥ/

### Letter

wy (upper case Wy)
* A letter of the Mfumte alphabet.

## Old Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vy. First attested in the 14th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (10th–15th CE) /vɨ/
* IPA: (15th CE) /vɨ/

### Pronoun

wy
* plural second person pronoun; you
* polite singular second person pronoun; you

#### Descendants

* Polish: wy
* Silesian: wy

### References

* Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wy”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
* B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “wy”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

## Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish wy.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɘ/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /vɨ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɘ
* Syllabification: wy

### Pronoun

wy
* plural second person pronoun; you
* (dated) polite singular second person pronoun; you
    Synonyms: (for men) pan, (for women) pani

#### Declension
### Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 11 times in essays, 64 times in fiction, and 199 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 279 times, making it the 182nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

### See also

* Appendix:Polish pronouns

### References

* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 687

### Further reading

* wy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* wy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wy”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* Renata Bronikowska (22.06.2021) “WY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wy”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wy”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wy”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 791

## Silesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɪ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪ
* Syllabification: wy

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish wy.

#### Pronoun

wy
* plural second person pronoun; you

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Preposition

wy
* Alternative form of w, used mostly before words that begin with consonant clusters

### Further reading

* wy in silling.org

## Upper Sorbian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vy, from Proto-Indo-European *wos.

### Pronoun

wy
* you (second-person plural)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “wy” in Soblex

## Welsh
### Etymology

From Middle Welsh wy, from Old Welsh ui, from Proto-Celtic *āwyom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /uːɨ̯/
* (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA: /ʊi̯/
** (South Wales, colloquial) IPA: /wiː/
* Rhymes: -ʊɨ̯

### Noun

wy m (plural wyau)
* egg

#### Derived terms

* gwyn wy
* melyn wy
* wy Pasg
* wyfa, wygell (“ovary”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “wy”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian wī, from Proto-West Germanic *wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy-, plural of *éǵh₂.

### Pronunciation

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

### Pronoun

wy
* we (first-person plural nominative pronoun)

#### Inflection

$^1$ Now mostly archaic and unused.

#### Further reading

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