wei
- water
From Proto-Oceanic *waiʀ, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.
wei
- water (clear liquid H₂O)
- The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic (2007, →ISBN
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”).
wei (West Central Bavarian)
- because, given that
wei
- water
From Middle Dutch wei, from Old Dutch *wei, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaij (“whey”).
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.
wei f (plural weiden, diminutive weitje n)
- Alternative form of weide
wẹị or węi
- (Boro, Tebera) water
wei
- (Southern, Umbu Ratu Nggai) water
wei
- water (clear liquid H₂O)
- Ursula Samely, Robert H. Barnes, A Dictionary of the Kedang Language: Kedang-Indonesian-English
From Proto-Khasian *wiː. Cognate with Pnar wi.
wei
- one
From Proto-Oceanic *waiʀ, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.
wei
- water (clear liquid H₂O)
wei
- second-person singular imperative of weien
wei (wei5/wei0, Zhuyin ˙ㄨㄟ)
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 煀
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 喂
wei
- Nonstandard spelling of wēi.
- Nonstandard spelling of wéi.
- Nonstandard spelling of wěi.
- Nonstandard spelling of wèi.
- 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.
wei
- Alternative spelling of way
wei
- water
- 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
From Proto-Cariban *weju.
wei
- sun
From Old Frisian wei, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.
wei c (plural wegen, diminutive weike)
- road
- way
- “wei (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011