whey
English
/ʍeɪ/
noun
Definitions
- The liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained in the process of making cheese.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English whey inherited from Old English hwǣġ inherited from *hwai (whey) derived from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey- (pay, pile up, honor, value, build, stow, avenge, observe, gather, pile).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷey-
Gloss
pay, pile up, honor, value, build, stow, avenge, observe, gather, pile
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
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Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -poeia English
- face English
- faced English
- impunity English
- painlessly English
- painlessness English
- painstaking English
- painstakingly English
- painstakingness English
- penalization English
- penalize English
- penologic English
- penological English
- penologically English
- penologist English
- punishability English
- punishable English
- punisher English
- punitive English
- punitively English
- repinement English
- repiner English
- repiningly English
- sack English
- sack-whey English
- unrepining English
- unrepiningly English
- whey-faced English
- wheyey English
- wheyface English
- wheyish English
- wheyishness English
- wheylike English
- poena Latin
- puniō Latin
- alpenwei Dutch, Flemish
- bloedwei Dutch, Flemish
- wei Dutch, Flemish
- Ποίας Ancient Greek
- Τιμάνθης Ancient Greek
- Τιμοκρέων Ancient Greek
- Τιμολέων Ancient Greek
- Τιμοσθένης Ancient Greek
- Τιμοφάνης Ancient Greek
- Τιμόθεος Ancient Greek
- Τισίας Ancient Greek
- Τισαμενός Ancient Greek
- περιποιέω Ancient Greek
- ποίημα Ancient Greek
- ποίησις Ancient Greek
- ποιέω Ancient Greek
- ποιητής Ancient Greek
- ποιητός Ancient Greek
- ποινή Ancient Greek
- προσποιέω Ancient Greek
- τίμημα Ancient Greek
- τίνω Ancient Greek
- τίω Ancient Greek
- τιμάω Ancient Greek
- φιλότιμος Ancient Greek
- ψιλοποιέω Ancient Greek
- ἀγαθοποιΐα Ancient Greek
- ἀγαθοποιέω Ancient Greek
- ἀγαθοποιός Ancient Greek
- Ἀριστότιμος Ancient Greek
- ἐμποιέω Ancient Greek
- ἐποποιία Ancient Greek
- *kʷes- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷey Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷey- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷi-meh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷoynéh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷéytis Proto-Indo-European
- onomatopoetikon Norwegian Bokmål
- *hwajją Proto-Germanic
- onomatopoetikon Swedish
- onomatopoetikon Norwegian Nynorsk
- hwǣġ Old English
- pīnian Old English
- चिता Sanskrit
- paynful Middle English
- paynles Middle English
- peinfully Middle English
- sub pena Middle English
- whey Middle English
- *kàjati Proto-Slavic
- *činъ Proto-Slavic
- punissement Old French
- շիճուկ Armenian
- wei Middle Dutch
- շիճուկ Old Armenian
- pénalité Middle French
- *hwai gmw-pro
- *wei Old Dutch
- *ad-kʷis-o- Proto-Celtic
- *kʷinuss Proto-Celtic
- *hwei Old Saxon
- чинъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- *wei Old Frisian
- Waai Saterland Frisian
- *poiwéō Proto-Hellenic
- face
- sack
- faced
- -poeia
- wheyey
- wheyish
- repiner
- wheylike
- penalize
- wheyface
- impunity
- punitive
- punisher
- sack-whey
- penologic
- repinement
- unrepining
- punitively
- repiningly
- punishable
- penologist
- whey-faced
- painlessly
- painstaking
- penological
- wheyishness
- unrepiningly
- painlessness
- penalization
- punishability
- painstakingly
- penologically
- painstakingness