gwe

See also: Appendix:Variations of "gwe"

Translingual

Symbol

gwe

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Gweno.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Gweno terms

Japanese

Romanization

gwe

  1. The katakana syllable グェ (gwe) in Hepburn romanization.

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Contraction of gowe, from English go away.

Verb

gwe

  1. to go away, to leave
    • 1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore‎[1], New York: Columbia University Press, page 424:
      Bɔfru dɛ krei̯, Dia dɛ krei̯, Tamanwa 'ɛ krei̯. Nō mō ala den meti 'ɛ gowe wą' wą'. Nō mō Hagu drapɛ, 'ɛ bari, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / Mi yɛre suma dɛdɛ, / Ma karaki dɛ bro.’
      [Bofru e krei, Dia e krei, Tamanwa e krei. Nomo ala den meti e gwe wanwan. Nomo Agu drape e bari, 'Bia, bia, bia / Mi yere suma dede / Ma karaki e bro.']
      Buffalo was crying, Deer was crying, Anteater was crying. No sooner did all the animals go away one by one, than Hog called out, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / I hear a person died, / But his backside breathes.’
    • c. 1970, Michaël Slory, “Dungru worku broko a faja gi mi: wan fresko mamanten”, in Fri-kontren-sma‎[2], page 9:
      Mi o gwe go suku wan tra sortu libi now.
      I'll go away now, to look for a different kind of life.
  2. to disappear
    Mi bagasi gwe. ― My luggage is gone.

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh gwe, from Proto-Celtic *wegyā. Cognate with Breton gwiad, and Cornish gwi, gwias.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡweː/
  • Rhymes: -eː

Noun

gwe f (plural gweoedd)

  1. web, spiderweb
  2. gauze
  3. (with definite article) the web

Derived terms

  • anwe (“woof, weft”)
  • chwilerwe (“cocoon”)
  • gwe-rwydo (“phishing”)
  • gwe-ymlusgwr (“web crawler”)
  • gwefan (“website”)
  • gwehydd (“weaver”)
  • gweog (“webbed”)
  • gweol (“textile, woven”)
  • gweu (“to spin a web; to knit”)
  • gwewyfyn (“webworm”)
  • llugwe (“filmy fern”)
  • meinwe (“(body or plant) tissue”)
  • teneuwe (“gauze, film”)
  • ymylwe (“selvage”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of gwe
radical soft nasal aspirate
gwe we ngwe unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  • Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “web”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎[3], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
  • D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “gwe”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “gwe”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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