Luxembourgish

Noun

Wee m ‎(plural Weeër)

1. way, path

English

Adjective

wee ‎(comparative weer, superlative weest)

1. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England, New Zealand) Small, little.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 73:

     I had not seen a wee boy do it like that before. He was weer than me and his swimming was just like splashing about.

   You looked a little cold so I lit a wee fire.

Translations

References

• Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

wee ‎(uncountable)

1. (colloquial, uncountable) urine
2. (colloquial) An act of urination.

   to have a wee

Synonyms

• wee wee
• See also Wikisaurus:urine
• See also Wikisaurus:urination

Translations

Verb

wee ‎(third-person singular simple present wees, present participle weeing, simple past and past participle weed)

1. (colloquial) To urinate.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:urinate

Translations

Etymology 3

• see we

Pronoun

wee ‎(personal pronoun)

1. obsolete emphatic of we

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

Anagrams

• eew
• ewe, Ewe

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋeː/
• Rhymes: -eː

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wai. Compare Old English wā (English woe), Old High German wē (German weh), Old Norse vei.

Adjective

wee ‎(not comparable)

1. nauseating

Inflection

Noun

wee f ‎(plural weeën, diminutive weetje n)

1. contraction during labour or childbirth

   De weeën beginnen!

   The contractions are starting!

2. sorrow, sadness, pain, woe; archaic unless used as an interjection of despair or annoyance

   O wee, wat zal er van ons worden.

   Oh my, what’s going to happen with us.

Derived terms

• (sorrow): o wee, ach en wee, heimwee

Anagrams

• Ewe

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *wē, from Proto-Germanic *wai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /weː/

Interjection

wêe

1. woe!

Adjective

wêe

1. unpleasant, painful

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Noun

wêe f

1. pain

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Scots

Pronunciation

• enPR: wē, IPA^(key): /wiː/

Adjective

wee ‎(comparative weer, superlative weest)

1. small, little, tiny

Usage notes

Used in both the standard Scots and Ulster Scots dialect.