hwy

See also: hŵy and hwy.

English

Noun

hwy (plural hwys)

  1. Abbreviation of highway.

Alternative forms
  • ewy (“expressway”)
  • fwy (“freeway”)

Anagrams

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From a presumed earlier *hwīe, from West Germanic *hwiu, from Proto-Germanic *hwī (“with what”), to which the more common instrumental ending *-ō had been added. Cognate with Old High German hwiu (instrumental case of hwaz).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /hwyː/

Adverb

hwȳ

  1. why

Pronoun

hwȳ

  1. instrumental singular of hwā
  2. instrumental singular of hwæt

Descendants
  • Middle English: why

See also

Welsh

Pronunciation
  • (North Wales) IPA(key): /huːɨ̯/
  • (South Wales) IPA(key): /hʊi̯/

Pronoun

hwy

  1. they; them.

Usage notes

Hwy is Literary Welsh. Colloquial Welsh uses nhw instead.

Adjective

hwy

  1. comparative degree of hir: longer

Noun

hwy

  1. h-prothesized form of wy

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalh-prothesis
wy unchanged unchanged hwy
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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