wí

wí

1. sun (star around which the Earth revolves)

wí

1. sun, luminary
2. moon, luminary
3. month

wí

1. tsk, expression of mild annoyance (uttered in a very high pitch; used by women)

From Proto-Germanic *wīhą (“sacred area, sanctuary”). Cognate with Old Norse vé (“id.”).

wí n

1. (paganism) sanctuary
   • c. 1220, Guta lag 4:

     Engin má haita á hwatki á hult eþa hauga eþa haiþin guþ, hwatki á wí eþa staf-garþa.

     Nobody may in any way call upon groves or mounds, or heathen gods; nor in any way upon sanctuaries or enclosures.

• Only attested in the accusative plural, in a law forbidding pagan activities.

• “Vi” in: Schlyter, C.J. — Ordbok till Samlingen av Sveriges Gamla Lagar (1877)

From English we.

• IPA^(key): /wí/

wí

1. First-person plural independent pronoun, we

• Kofi Yakpo (2019), A grammar of Pichi (Studies in Diversity Linguistics; 23)‎^[1], Berlin: Language Science Press, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 578