Wye vs Wey - What's the difference?
wye | wey |
A wye-shaped object: a wye-level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track.
An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
* c. 1376 , William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman , Version B, Passus 5, Line 91:
* 1843 , The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge p. 202:
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 208:
* (rfdate): A wey is 6 tods, or 182 pounds, of wool; a load, or five quarters, of wheat, 40 bushels of salt, each weighing 56 pounds; 32 cloves of cheese, each weighing seven pounds; 48 bushels of oats and barley; and from two cwt. to three cwt. of butter. — Simmonds.
Wey is a anagram of wye.
As nouns the difference between wye and wey
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 wey is an old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.As proper nouns the difference between wye and wey
is that wye is a river of England and Wales, the fifth-longest in the UK while Wey is an English river which flows through Guildford, and is a tributary of the Thames.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.
See also
*Etymology 2
(etyl) wiga .Anagrams
* *wey
English
Noun
(en noun)- Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese.
- Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 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.
- Cheese and salt are purchased by the wey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds.
