Weye vs Wye - What's the difference?
weye | wye |
A wye-shaped object: a wye-level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track.
As nouns the difference between weye and wye
is that weye is obsolete form of way while wye is a wye-shaped object: a wye-level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track.As a verb weye
is obsolete form of weigh.As a proper noun Wye is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.