Etymology Explorer
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Where does “wei” come from?
wei (Middle Low German) comes from Old Saxon hwei, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaij — whey.
Ancestry of “wei”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Old Saxon
hwei
—
2
Proto-West Germanic
*hwaij
whey
Words derived from “wei”
Wei
Wei
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