Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wai

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wai.

Interjection

*wai

woe!, alas!

Descendants

Old English: wā
- Middle English: wa, wo, woo
  - English: woe
  - Scots: wa, wae
Old Frisian: wach, *wē
- West Frisian: wee, wea
Old Saxon: wah, wē
- Middle Low German: wach, wê
Old Dutch: *wē
- Middle Dutch: wee
  - Dutch: wee
Old High German: wah, wa, wē
- Middle High German: wāch, wē
  - Cimbrian: bèa
  - German: weh, Weh, wehe, Wehe
  - Yiddish: וויי‎ (vey)
    - → English: vey
→ Vulgar Latin: *wai, *guai
- Catalan: guai
- Emilian: ouais (Modenese)
- Old French: gway, gwai, guai, way, wai
  - Middle French: vé, vee (merger with or from Latin vae)
    - French: vé (dialectical, Montbéliard)
- Italian: guai
- Piedmontese: guaj
- Portuguese: guai (obsolete)
- Old Spanish: guay
  - Spanish: guay, guais (plural)
  - Ladino: guay, uay
- Sicilian: vai