wey
/weɪ/
wey noun: an old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
Noun
wey (plural 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.c. 1376, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, Version B, Passus 5, Line 91
- 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.1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 27, page 202
Proper noun capitalized: Wey
Wey
Forms of wey
| plural | weys |
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Origin of wey
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”).
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Questions about wey
- What does wey mean?
- Wey means an old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
- What part of speech is wey?
- Wey can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce wey?
- Wey is pronounced /weɪ/.
- What is the plural of wey?
- The plural of wey is weys.
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