wey

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 wā

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight. archaic,uncommon
    — Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese.

词形变化

weys plural

词源

From Middle English weie, waie, weihe, wæȝe, from Old English wǣġ (“a weight; a tool for weighing, balance, scale”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales; weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move, bring, transport”). Cognate with German Waage (“weight”), Icelandic vág (“a weight”).
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