Wey
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wey¹
- /weɪ/
Sounds like way, weigh, whey (wine–whine merger) · Rhymes with -eɪ
Where it comes from
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”).
noun weys
- An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight. Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese.
Wey²
proper noun
- A river in Surrey, England, a tributary to the Thames.
- A short river in Dorset, England, which flows from Upwey to the sea at Weymouth.
- Alternative form of Wei, an ancient Chinese duchy.Wei
