weye

== English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Verb ==== weye (third-person singular simple present weyes, present participle weying, simple past and past participle weyed) Obsolete form of weigh. === Etymology 2 === See way. ==== Noun ==== weye (plural weyes) Obsolete form of way. == Ajië == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [weʝe] === Noun === weye road, path === References === 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. == Mapudungun == === Noun === weye (Raguileo spelling) 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. ==== Derived terms ==== weyetun === References === Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, El hombre mapuche que se convirtió en mujer chamán: Individualidad , transgresión de género y normas culturales en pugna, 2011 == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Verb ==== weye alternative form of weyen (“to weigh”) === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== weye alternative form of weyen (“to deceive”) ==== References ==== “† 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]