Y vs Wye - What's the difference?
y | wye |
The twenty-fifth letter of the .
Symbol for the prefix yocto-.
close front rounded vowel
Denoting an item that is twenty-fifth in a list.
Image:Latin Y.png, Capital and lowercase versions of Y , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter Y.png, Uppercase and lowercase Y in Fraktur
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A wye-shaped object: a wye-level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track.
As a letter y
is the letter y with a (l) above itself.As a proper noun wye is
a river of england and wales, the fifth-longest in the uk.y
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=x, next=z, image= (wikipedia y)Letter
See also
(Latn-script)Symbol
(Close front rounded vowel) (head)See also
{{Letter , page=Y , NATO=Yankee , Morse=โยทโโ , Character=Y , Braille=? }}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.