weye

weye (third-person singular simple present weyes, present participle weying, simple past and past participle weyed)

1. Obsolete form of weigh.

See way.

weye (plural weyes)

1. Obsolete form of way.

• IPA^(key): [weʝe]

weye

1. road, path

• Leenhardt, M. (1935), Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946), Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

weye (Raguileo spelling)

1. a male-bodied individual who fulfils a third gender role in Mapudungun society often as a shaman or a machi; sometimes used to refer to effeminate men or simply homosexual men.

• weyetun

• Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, El hombre mapuche que se convirtió en mujer chamán: Individualidad , transgresión de género y normas culturales en pugna, 2011

weye

1. alternative form of weyen (“to weigh”)

weye

1. alternative form of weyen (“to deceive”)

• “† Weye” listed on page 334 of volume X, part II (V–Z) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1928]
    † Weye, v. Obs. rare. Also waye. [OE. wǽᵹan to delude, deceive.] [¶] 1. trans. To deceive, lead astray. [¶] c 1315 Shoreham Poems i. 370 Þat he ne may nauȝt yweid be Wiþ blanding ne wiþ boste. Ibid. vii. 648 The deuel..dorste nauȝt adam asaylly, Al for to waye. [¶] 2. intr. To go astray. [¶] c 1315 Shoreham Poems i. 301 Bote hi ariȝt icristned be, Fram heuene euere hi weyeþ.
• “†weye, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]