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Wye vs Kye - What's the difference?

wye | kye |

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

* wy

Etymology 1

Attested as wi'' c. 1200. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps cognate with Old French ''ui'' or ''gui.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A wye-shaped object: a wye-level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track.
    • By going around the wye, a train can change direction.
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    Etymology 2

    (etyl) wiga .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (poetic, obsolete) A warrior or fighter.
  • (poetic, obsolete) A hero; a man, person.

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    kye

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ky, kye, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (head)
  • (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.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Korean fundraising meeting.

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