Weigh
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weigh¹
- /weɪ/
Sounds like way, Wei, wey, whey (wine–whine merger) · Rhymes with -eɪ
Where it comes from
From Middle English weyen, from Old English wegan, from Proto-West Germanic *wegan, from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to move, carry, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti, from *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots wey, wee, Dutch wegen, German wiegen, wägen, Danish veje, Norwegian Bokmål veie, Norwegian Nynorsk vega. Doublet of wedge, wagon, way, and vector.
verb weighs · weighing · weighed · waye · weye
- To determine the weight of an object.
- Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale. He weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client.
- To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate. You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
- To judge; to estimate. But ſhe thereof grew proud and inſolent, / That none ſhe worthie thought to be her fere, / But ſcornd them all, that loue vnto her ment; / Yet was ſhe lou’d of many a worthy pere, / Vnworthy ſhe to be belou’d ſo dere, / That could not weigh of worthineſſe aright.
- To consider a subject.
- To have a certain weight. I weigh ten and a half stone.
- To have weight; to be heavy; to press down. If they ſhall faile, I with mine Enemies Will triumph o're my perſon, which I waigh not, Being of thoſe Vertues vacant.
- To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance. Your vowes to her, and me,[…] / Will euen weigh, and both as light as tales.
- To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
- To weigh anchor. Towards the euening we wayed, & approaching the ſhoare [...], we landed where there lay a many of baskets and much bloud, but ſaw not a Salvage.
- To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up. Weigh the vessel up.
- To consider as worthy of notice; to regard. Thinke you I weigh this treaſure more than you? Not all the Gold in Indias welthy armes, Shall buy the meaneſt ſouldier in my traine.
noun weighs · waye · weye
- The act of weighing, of measuring the weight Give the sugar a quick weigh.
Weigh²
proper noun
- A surname.
