wey
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Noun — An old English unit for weighing goods, equal to 224 pounds or two hundredweight.
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Etymology
Comes from Middle English weie, waie, weihe, wæȝe, from Old English wǣġ (“a weight; a tool for weighing, balance, scale”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales; weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move, bring, transport”). It is cognate with German Waage (“weight”) and Icelandic...
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