Wye vs Kye - What's the difference?
wye | kye |
A wye-shaped object: a wye-level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track.
(cow)
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 23:
*:devil the move would the factor at Meikle House make to […] mend the roof of the byre that leaked like a sieve on the head of Mistress Munro when she milked the kye on a stormy night.
As nouns the difference between wye and kye
is that wye is a wye-shaped object: a wye-level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track while kye is irregular plural of cow.As a proper noun Wye
is a river of England and Wales, the fifth-longest in the UK.wye
English
Alternative forms
* wyEtymology 1
Attested as wi'' c. 1200. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps cognate with Old French ''ui'' or ''gui.Noun
(en noun)- By going around the wye, a train can change direction.