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— English words —

• y let. The twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, called wy or wye and written in the Latin script.
• y n. Abbreviation of year.
• y n. (UK, television) Abbreviation of youth, usually followed by an age appropriate for the content so marked.
• y n. (Computing) Abbreviation of yes.
• y adv. (Slang, text messaging, Internet slang, stenoscript) Abbreviation of why.
• Y let. The twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, called wye and written in the Latin script.
• Y let. Used for the Greek letter Υ (“upsilon”).
• Y n. A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y.
• Y n. A Y-shaped object, such as a railroad fork or a support for a telescope; a wye, a bifurcation.
• Y n. (Lepidopterology) A moth of the genus Plusia, having markings resembling the letter Y.
• Y interj. Abbreviation of yes.
• Y n. Abbreviation of year. (In some contexts as YY or YYYY to indicate only the last 2-digits or all 4-digits.)
• Y n. (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of year.
• Y prop.n. (North America) Short for the YMCA or YWCA.
• Y n. (North America, informal) A particular facility run by the YMCA/YWCA.
• -y suff. Added to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives meaning “having the quality of”, either “involving…
• -y suff. Added to verbs to form adjectives meaning "inclined to".
• -y suff. Forming diminutive nouns.
• -y suff. Forming familiar names, pet names, nicknames and terms of endearment.
• -y suff. Forming abstract nouns denoting a state, condition, or quality.
• -y suff. Used in the name of some locations which end in -ia in Latin.
• y' pron. (Informal, dialect, subject pronoun) you; ya; ye.
• y- pref. (Not productive, obsolete) Used with past participle conjugations to form past participles (this prefix…

— International convention —

• y let. The twenty-fifth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
• y sym. (Metrology) Symbol for the prefix yocto-.
• y sym. (IPA) close front rounded vowel.
• y sym. Denoting an item that is twenty-fifth in a list.
• Y let. The twenty-fifth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
• Y sym. (Chemistry) Symbol for yttrium.
• Y sym. (Metrology) Symbol for prefix yotta-.
• Y sym. (Genetics) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for any pyrimidine.
• Y sym. (Biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for tyrosine.
• Y sym. (Travel, aviation) The reservation booking designator for the highest level of economy air fare.
• Y sym. (Mathematics, computer science) A Fixed-point combinator; especially Haskell Curry’s combinator defined…
• ¥ sym. The symbol for yen, the currency of Japan.
• ¥ sym. The symbol for the yuan, the currency of China.
• ɣ sym. (IPA) voiced velar fricative.
• ɣ let. A letter of some African alphabets representing voiced velar fricative.
• ʸ sym. (Americanist phonetic alphabet) palatalization.
• ý let. The letter y with an acute accent.
• ŷ let. The letter y with a circumflex.
• ÿ let. The letter y with a diaeresis, usually used in old or handwritten texts as a ligature for Dutch or Afrikaans…
• ȳ let. The letter y with a macron.
• ʏ let. A small caps version of the letter Y.
• ʏ sym. (IPA) near-close, near-front rounded vowel.
• ƴ let. The letter y with a hook, used in writing various languages of West Africa.
• γ sym. (Mathematics) the Euler-Mascheroni constant.
• γ sym. (Physics) photon, gamma ray.
• γ sym. (Physics) Lorentz factor.
• Υ sym. (Physics) upsilon meson.
• Υ sym. (Physics) mass-to-light ratio.
• ϒ let. Curled capital letter upsilon.
• Ύ let. (Ancient Greek) The letter Υ with an oxia.
• Ύ let. (Modern Greek) The letter Υ with a tonos.
• у let. A letter of the Cyrillic script, called u.
• ў let. A letter of the Cyrillic script, called short u.
• ӱ let. A letter of the Cyrillic script.
• ӳ let. A letter of the Cyrillic script.
• ӯ let. A letter of the Cyrillic script.
• ү let. A letter of the Cyrillic script.
• ұ let. A letter of the Cyrillic script.
• Ý let. The letter Y with an acute accent.
• Ŷ let. The letter Y with a circumflex.
• Ÿ let. The letter Y with a diaeresis above itself. It was often used as an early symbol for the letter thorn…
• Ȳ let. The letter Y with a macron.
• Ɏ let. The letter Y with a stroke, used in the Lubuagan Kalinga language of the Philippines.
• Ƴ let. The capital letter Y with a hook, used in the African reference alphabet to represent a palatalized…
• У let. A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.
• Ў let. A letter in some Cyrillic alphabets.
• Ӯ let. A letter of several Cyrillic alphabets.
• Ү let. A letter in some Cyrillic alphabets (non-Slavic).
• ỳ let. The letter y with a grave accent.
• ẙ let. The letter y with a ring above.
• ỹ let. The letter y with a tilde.
• ẏ let. The letter y with a dot above.
• ỷ let. The letter y with a hook above.
• ỵ let. The letter y with a dot below.
• ỿ let. A minuscule wye with a loop at the end of its descender.
• ℽ sym. (Chiefly mathematics) A double-struck lowercase Greek letter gamma.
• ⵖ let. A Tifinagh letter: the twenty-fourth letter of the basic Neo-Tifinagh alphabet.
• Ỳ let. The letter Y with a grave accent.
• Ỹ let. The letter Y with a tilde.
• Ẏ let. The letter Y with a dot above.
• Ỷ let. The letter Y with a hook above.
• Ỵ let. The letter Y with a dot below.
• Ỿ let. A majuscule wye with a loop at the end of its descender.
• 𐌖 let. The twenty-third letter of the archaic Etruscan alphabet, eighteenth letter of the Oscan and classical…
• ^Y sym. (Computing) The ASCII control character end of medium in caret notation.
• y̨ let. The letter y with an ogonek.
• Y̊ let. The letter Y with a ring above.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Abaza
  • у let. The forty-seventh letter of the Abaza alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Abkhaz
  • у let. The forty-first letter of the Abkhaz alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Adyghe
  • у let. The forty-first letter of the Adyghe alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Afar
  • Y let. The twenty-second and final letter in the Afar alphabet.
  • -y Used to form an interrogative copulative sentence: is it?
  • -y Used to join together noun phrases: and, also.
  • y- pref. Used together with the suffix -i to create masculine agent nouns.
• Afrikaans
  • Y let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  • Y n. Y.
• Aghul
  • у let. The thirty-third letter of the Aghul alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Albanian
  • γ let. The 4th letter of the Arvanitic Albanian Greek-script alphabet.
• Alutor
  • у let. The twenty-seventh letter of the Alutor alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Ancient greek
  • γ let. Lower-case gamma, the third letter of the ancient Greek alphabet. Its name was γάμμα and it represented…
  • Υ let. The letter now called upsilon (ὖ ψιλόν), the 20th letter of the ancient Greek alphabet.
  • γ' part. Apocopic form of γε.
• Apalaí
  • ỹ interj. Yes.
• Aragonese - Asturian - Kabuverdianu - Ladin - Papiamentu
  • y conj. And.
• Aramaic
  • 𐡁 let. Beth, the second letter of the Aramaic alphabet.
• Archi
  • у let. The sixty-seventh letter of the Archi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Asturian
  • y pron. Pronoun for the third-person singular indirect object.
  • -y pron. Him, she, it (third-person singular indirect pronoun).
• Avar
  • у let. The twenty-ninth letter of the Avar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Azerbaijani
  • y let. The thirty-first letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  • Y let. The thirty-first letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  • у let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ү let. The twenty-sixth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Bashkir
  • у let. The twenty-seventh letter of the Bashkir alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ү let. The twenty-eighth letter of the Bashkir alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • У let. The twenty-seventh letter of the Bashkir alphabet.
  • Ү let. The twenty-eighth letter of the Bashkir alphabet.
• Basque
  • y let. The twenty-sixth letter of the Basque alphabet, called i greko and written in the Latin script.
  • Y let. The twenty-sixth letter of the Basque alphabet, called i greko and written in the Latin script.
• Belarusian
  • у let. The twenty-first letter of the Belarusian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • у prep. In (+ locative case).
  • у prep. To, into (+ accusative case).
  • у prep. At, by, near, in the possession of (+ genitive case).
  • ў let. The twenty-second letter of the Belarusian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ў prep. In (+ locative case).
  • Ў let. The 22nd letter of the Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet.
• Bulgarian
  • у let. The twentieth letter of the Bulgarian alphabet, called у, and written in the Cyrillic script.
  • у prep. At (someone)’s place.
  • у prep. To (someone)’s place.
  • у prep. With (someone), in (someone’s) possession.
  • у prep. Among (people/animals) (in reference to a quality).
  • у interj. Ugh, yuck.
• Bulgarian - Macedonian
  • у interj. Wow!
• Buryat
  • у let. The twenty-second letter of the Buryat alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ү let. The twenty-third letter of the Buryat alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Carian
  • 𐊲 let. A letter of the Carian alphabet.
• Catalan
  • y conj. Obsolete form of i (“and”).
• Central atlas tamazight
  • ⵖ let. Yagh, a Tifinagh letter, the twenty-second of the basic Neo-Tifinagh alphabet.
  • ⵖ prep. To, towards (destination).
• Central franconian
  • Y let. A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
  • Y let. A letter in the Dutch-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
• Chechen
  • у let. The twenty-ninth letter of the Chechen alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Cherokee
  • Ꭹ let. Letter of the Cherokee syllabary, transcribed as syllable gi.
  • Ꮍ let. Letter of the Cherokee syllabary, transcribed as syllable mu.
• Chinese
  • Y let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Latin alphabet.
  • Y let. The twenty-fifth letter used in Pinyin.
• Chukchi
  • у let. The twenty-fourth letter of the Chukchi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Chuvash
  • у let. The twenty-fourth letter of the Chuvash alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ӳ let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Chuvash alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • Ӳ let. The twenty-third letter of the Chuvash alphabet.
• Cornish
  • y pron. (Standard Cornish) they (third person plural pronoun).
  • y pron. (Standard Cornish, Standard Written Form) his.
• Crimean tatar
  • у let. The twenty-fourth letter of the Crimean Tatar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Czech
  • ý let. The fortieth letter of the Czech alphabet, written in the Latin script., after y and before z.
  • Ý let. A letter of the Czech alphabet, representing a long y.
  • -y suff. -ly: from adjectives forms adverbs.
  • -ý suff. (Inflectional suffix) masculine nominative singular of hard adjectives.
• Dargwa
  • у let. The twenty-ninth letter of the Dargwa alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Dungan
  • у let. The twenty-fourth letter of the Dungan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ў let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Dungan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ү let. The twenty-sixth letter of the Dungan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Eastern mari
  • у adj. New.
  • у let. The twenty-third letter of the Eastern Mari alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ӱ let. The twenty-fourth letter of the Eastern Mari alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Egyptian
  • -y suff. (Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian) Forms the plural imperative of verbs, particularly weak verbs.
  • -y suff. (Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian) Optionally used to form the subjunctive of weak verbs.
  • -y suff. Forms agent nouns from verbs.
  • -y suff. (Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian) Optionally marks the masculine imperfective active participle, intervening…
  • -y suff. (Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian) Optionally marks the masculine singular perfective passive participle…
  • -y suff. (Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian) Optionally marks the perfective passive participle of weak verbs, intervening…
  • -y suff. (Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian) Optionally marks the perfective relative form of weak verbs, intervening…
  • -y suff. (Late Egyptian) Marks the perfective passive participle of mostly third-weak transitive verbs, following the stem.
  • -y suff. (Late Egyptian) Occasionally marks the perfective active participle of mostly third-weak transitive…
  • -y suff. (Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian) Rarely marks the imperfective relative form of all verbs, intervening…
  • .y pron. (Attached to a stative verb form) they, them.
• Elfdalian
  • y̨ let. The twenty-eighth letter of the Elfdalian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
• Even
  • у let. The twenty-fourth letter of the Even alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Evenki
  • у let. The twenty-second letter of the Evenki alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Fala
  • y conj. Alternative form of i.
• Faroese
  • y let. The twenty-sixth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  • ý let. The twenty-seventh letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script., after y and before æ.
  • ý v. Imperative of at ýa.
  • Ý let. The twenty-seventh letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.
• Finnish
  • y let. The twenty-fourth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called yy and written in the Latin script.
  • Y let. The twenty-fourth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called yy and written in the Latin script.
  • -y suff. Front vowel variant of -u.
• Fula
  • y let. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  • ƴ let. The last letter of the Fula alphabet, preceded by Y.
• Georgian
  • ყ let. Twenty-seventh letter of the Georgian alphabet. Its name is qar ([qʼɑɾ]) and it is preceded by ღ and…
  • ყ let. The number 800 in Georgian numerals.
• Gothic
  • 𐍅 let. The twenty-second letter of the Gothic alphabet, representing /w/, with a numerical value of 400.
• Greek
  • γ let. Lower-case gamma, the third letter of the modern Greek alphabet. Its name is γάμμα or γάμα and it represents…
  • Υ let. The upper case letter upsilon (ύψιλον), the 20th letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
  • γ΄ num. (Nonstandard) Alternative form of Γ΄.
  • Υ΄ num. The Greek numeral representing the number four hundred (400); typically romanized as the Roman numeral CD.
• Guaraní - Mbyá guaraní - Old tupi
  • y n. Water.
• Haitian creole
  • y pron. Contraction of yo.
• Hausa
  • ƴ let. The 27th letter of the Hausa alphabet, Boko, preceded by Y and followed by Z, and representing /ʔʲ/.
• Hungarian
  • y let. A letter of the extended Hungarian alphabet, called ipszilon and written in the Latin script.
  • Y let. A letter of the extended Hungarian alphabet, called ipszilon and written in the Latin script.
• Icelandic
  • ý let. The twenty-ninth letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  • Ý let. The twenty-ninth letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.
• Ido
  • y let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  • Y let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.
• Indonesian
  • y let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
• Ingush
  • у let. The twenty-eighth letter of the Ingush alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Itelmen
  • у let. The thirty-second letter of the Itelmen alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ў let. The thirty-third letter of the Itelmen alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • уʼ n. Tree.
• Japanese
  • Ⓨ sym. (Music and print publications) Indicating the first date at which the item must be sold at a fixed price…
• Kabardian
  • у let. The thirty-ninth letter of the Kabardian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Kalmyk
  • у let. The twenty-sixth letter of the Kalmyk alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ү let. The twenty-seventh letter of the Kalmyk alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Kamayurá
  • y n. Alternative form of ’ɨ.
• Kamba
  • y- pref. He or she (used for conjugating verbs to the subjective or nominative case of the personal pronoun).
• Kayabí
  • ʼy n. Water.
  • ʼy n. River.
• Kazakh
  • у let. The twenty-sixth letter of the Kazakh alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • у n. Poison.
  • ү let. The twenty-eighth letter of the Kazakh alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ұ let. The twenty-seventh letter of the Kazakh alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • У let. The twenty-sixth letter of the Kazakh alphabet.
  • Ү let. The twenty-eighth letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet.
  • Ұ let. The twenty-seventh letter of the Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet.
• Khakas
  • у let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Khakas alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ӱ let. The twenty-sixth letter of the Khakas alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Khumi chin
  • y part. No.
• Kumyk
  • у let. The twenty-sixth letter of the Kumyk alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Kyrgyz
  • у let. The twenty-third letter of the Kyrgyz alphabet, called у, and written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ү let. The twenty-fourth letter of the Kyrgyz alphabet, called ү, and written in the Cyrillic script.
• Latgalian
  • y let. The fourteenth letter of the Latgalian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
• Lezgi
  • у let. The twenty-eighth letter of the Lezgi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Lisu
  • ꓬ let. The twenty-ninth letter of the Lisu alphabet, written in Fraser script.
• Lithuanian
  • y let. The fifteenth letter of the Lithuanian alphabet, called i ilgoji and written in the Latin script.
• Lower sorbian
  • -y suff. Alternative form of -i (used after “hard” consonants).
• Lubuagan kalinga
  • ɏ let. A lowercase y with a horizontal stroke.
• Macedonian
  • у let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Macedonian alphabet, called у, and written in the Cyrillic script.
  • у prep. (Dialectal) at, by, near.
  • у prep. (Dialectal) in the possession of (used to express "to have").
  • у prep. (Dialectal) in.
  • у interj. Ugh, yuck, ew.
  • У let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Macedonian alphabet, called у, and written in the Cyrillic script.
• Malay
  • y let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  • Y let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.
• Mandinka
  • y pron. They, them (personal pronoun).
• Mansi
  • у let. The twenty-seventh letter of the Mansi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ӯ let. The twenty-eighth letter of the Mansi alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Manx
  • y art. Alternative form of yn.
• Maquiritari
  • y- pref. Marks a noun as having a first-person possessor.
  • y- pref. Marks a postposition as having a first-person object.
  • y- pref. Marks a transitive verb as having a first-person patient/object when the agent/subject is of third person…
  • y- pref. Marks a transitive verb as having a first-person patient/object when the agent/subject is unspecified…
  • y- pref. Marks an intransitive verb with patient-like argument as having a first-person argument/subject with…
  • y- pref. Marks a verb form derived with n- and -dü or -’jüdü as having a first-person agent/subject.
  • y- pref. Marks a noun as having a third-person possessor.
  • y- pref. Marks a postposition as having a third-person object.
  • y- pref. Marks a transitive verb as having a third-person patient/object with verb forms that take series II markers.
  • y- pref. Marks an intransitive verb as having a third-person argument/subject with verb forms that take series II markers.
  • y- pref. Marks a verb as having third-person arguments when marked with the admonitive -’no, prohibitive -i…
• Middle english
  • y pron. Alternative form of I.
  • y prep. Alternative form of in (“in”).
  • ẏ art. (Scribal abbreviation) ye, þe.
  • -y suff. Designates an adjective, in many cases formed by being appended to a noun.
  • -y suff. Alternative form of -yf.
  • y- pref. Used with past participle conjugations to form past participles (this prefix does not occur independently).
• Middle english - Old english
  • ẏ let. Alternative form of y.
• Middle english - Scots
  • -y suff. Alternative form of -ie.
• Middle french
  • y adv. There (in a given place).
• Mongolian
  • у let. The twenty-second letter of the Mongolian alphabet, called у, and written in the Cyrillic script.
  • у n. The name of the Cyrillic script letter У / у.
  • ү let. The twenty-third letter of the Mongolian alphabet, called ү, and written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ү n. The name of the Cyrillic script letter Ү / ү.
  • У let. The twenty-second letter of the Mongolian alphabet, called у, and written in the Cyrillic script.
  • Ү let. The twenty-third letter of the Mongolian alphabet, called ү, and written in the Cyrillic script.
• N'ko
  • ߌ let. The third character of the N’Ko script.
• Navajo
  • y- pref. A marker for the third person object.
• Nivkh
  • у let. The thirty-first letter of the Nivkh alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ў let. The thirty-second letter of the Nivkh alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Norwegian
  • y let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
• Nupe
  • y let. The twenty-eighth letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  • Y let. The twenty-eighth letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.
• Old east slavic
  • у prep. At, by.
  • у prep. Away from.
  • у prep. In the possession of.
  • у adv. Yet.
  • у interj. Alas!
  • у prep. (+ locative) Alternative form of въ (“inside”).
  • у prep. (+ accusative) Alternative form of въ (“into”).
• Old tupi
  • y n. River.
  • 'y n. Water.
  • 'y n. River.
• Orok
  • у let. The twenty-seventh letter of the Orok alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ӯ let. The twenty-eighth letter of the Orok alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Ossetian
  • у let. The twenty-eighth letter of the Ossetian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Phoenician
  • 𐤅 let. The sixth letter of the Phoenician abjad, called waw.
• Polish
  • y let. The twenty-ninth letter of the Polish alphabet, called y or igrek and written in the Latin script.
  • Y let. The twenty-ninth letter of the Polish alphabet, called y or igrek and written in the Latin script.
  • -y suff. Nominative plural ending of some masculine nouns.
  • -y suff. Vocative plural ending of some masculine nouns.
  • -y suff. Genitive singular ending of some feminine nouns.
  • -y suff. Nominative plural ending of some feminine nouns.
  • -y suff. Accusative plural ending of some feminine nouns.
  • -y suff. Vocative plural ending of some feminine nouns.
  • -y suff. Personal, animate, and inanimate masculine nominative singular ending of some adjectives.
  • -y suff. Personal, animate, and inanimate masculine vocative singular ending of some adjectives.
  • -y suff. Inanimate masculine accusative singular ending of some adjectives.
  • -y suff. Personal masculine nominative plural ending of some adjectives.
  • -y suff. Personal masculine vocative plural ending of some adjectives.
  • -y- interf. Used in forming certain compounds.
• Quechua
  • y adv. Really, truly.
  • -y suff. Infinitive marker.
  • -y suff. Nominalizes verbs. The act of doing something. "-ing.".
  • -y suff. Indicates first-person singular possessive.
  • -y suff. Conjugative suffix for the second-person imperative mood.
• Rade
  • Y- pref. Indicates male given name.
• Romanian
  • y let. The thirtieth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called igrec or i grec and written in the Latin script.
  • Y let. The thirtieth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called igrec or i grec and written in the Latin script.
  • у let. The twenty-first letter of the Moldovan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Russian
  • у let. The twenty-first letter of the Russian alphabet, called у, and written in the Cyrillic script.
  • у n. The name of the Cyrillic script letter У.
  • у n. The name of the Latin-script letter U/.
  • у n. Wu (language).
  • у prep. At, by, near.
  • у prep. In the possession of (used to express "to have").
  • у prep. Belonging to (used to denote ownership of body parts or appendages of objects).
  • у prep. From, of.
  • -у suff. Accusative case suffix for feminine nouns ending with -а or -я.
  • у- pref. Away.
  • у- pref. With a more concrete purpose.
• Saanich
  • Y let. The thirty-seventh letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.
• Serbo-croatian
  • у let. The twenty-fourth letter of the Serbo-Croatian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • у prep. (+ locative case) in, at (without change of position, answering the question гдје̏/где̏).
  • у prep. (+ accusative case) to, into (with change of position, answering the question ку̀да).
  • у prep. (+ accusative case) on, in, at, during (in expressions concerning time).
  • у prep. (+ locative case) in, during (in expressions concerning time).
  • у prep. (+ genitive case) chez.
  • У let. The twenty-fourth letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter Ћ (Ć)…
• Slovak
  • ý let. The forty-fourth letter of the Slovak alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  • Ý let. The forty-fourth letter of the Slovak alphabet, written in the Latin script.
• Somali
  • Y let. The twenty-second letter of the Somali alphabet, called ya and written in the Latin script.
• Southern altai
  • у let. The twenty-fourth letter of the Southern Altai alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ӱ let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Southern Altai alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Swedish
  • y. adj. Younger; Abbreviation of yngre.
• Tabasaran
  • у let. The twenty-ninth letter of the Tabasaran alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Tagalog
  • 'y part. Contraction of ay following a word ending in a vowel, primarily used in informal writing, poetry and…
• Tajik
  • у let. The twenty-fourth letter of the Tajik alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ӯ let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Tajik alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ӯ pron. He.
  • ӯ pron. She.
  • У let. The twenty-fourth letter of the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter Т (Se) and is…
  • Ӯ let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter У (U) and is followed…
• Tashelhit
  • ⵖ prep. In.
  • ⵖ prep. From (being in).
• Tatar
  • у let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Tatar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ү let. The twenty-sixth letter of the Tatar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Tundra nenets
  • у let. The twenty-second letter of the Tundra Nenets alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Tupinambá
  • ý n. Water.
• Turkish
  • y let. The twenty-eighth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ye and written in the Latin script.
  • Y let. The twenty-eighth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ye and written in the Latin script.
• Turkmen
  • y let. The twenty-eighth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called y and written in the Latin script.
  • ý let. The twenty-ninth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called ýe and written in the Latin script.
  • Ý let. The twenty-ninth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, written in the Latin script.
• Tuvan
  • у let. The twenty-third letter of the Tuvan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ү let. The twenty-fourth letter of the Tuvan alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Tày
  • y v. To imitate, to mimic.
  • y prep. Along.
  • y prep. According to.
• Tày - Vietnamese
  • ý n. A point (element in larger whole).
  • ý n. What one means.
• Udmurt
  • у let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Udmurt alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Ukrainian
  • у let. The twenty-fourth letter of the Ukrainian alphabet, called у, and written in the Cyrillic script.
  • у prep. (+ locative case) in, at.
• Uzbek
  • у let. The twenty-first letter of the Uzbek alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ў let. The thirty-second letter of the Uzbek alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • Ў let. The thirty-second letter of the Uzbek Cyrillic alphabet. It is now co-used with Oʻ. Due to the letter…
• Vietnamese
  • y pron. (Archaic, literary) he; him; she; her.
  • y pron. (Derogatory) he, him.
  • y adv. (Informal) exactly; precisely (like).
  • y n. (Medicine) medicine; physician.
  • Y let. The twenty-ninth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called i dài or i gờ-rét and written in the Latin script.
  • ý n. Clipping of ý tưởng (“idea”).
  • ý det. Alternative spelling of í; northern Vietnam form of ấy.
  • ý part. Alternative spelling of í; northern Vietnam form of ấy.
  • Ý prop.n. A female given name from Chinese.
  • Ý prop.n. (Colloquial) Italy.
  • Ý prop.n. (Only in compounds) Italo-; Italy.
  • Ý adj. (Colloquial) Italian.
  • ỳ v. Alternative spelling of ì.
  • ỷ v. (Derogatory) to rely; compare dựa (“to lean; to rely”).
• Wayampi
  • y n. Alternative form of ɨɨ (“water”).
• Welsh
  • y let. The twenty-ninth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called y and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by w.
  • y n. The name of the Latin-script letter Y/y.
  • y art. The.
  • y part. (Literary) that (preverbal particle used to mark a subordinate clause).
  • y part. (Literary) which, whom (particle used with indirect relative clauses).
  • y part. (Literary) preverbal particle used to mark an affirmative verb in a main clause.
  • Y let. The twenty-ninth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by W.
  • ỳ n. The name of the Latin-script letter Y/y.
  • 'y det. Informal form of fy (“my”).
• Western mari
  • у let. The twenty-third letter of the Western Mari alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ӱ let. The twenty-fourth letter of the Western Mari alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
• Yakut
  • у let. The twenty-seventh letter of the Yakut alphabet, called у, and written in the Cyrillic script.
  • ү let. The twenty-eighth letter of the Yakut alphabet, called ү, and written in the Cyrillic script.
• Yola
  • y' art. Alternative form of a (“the”).
• Yoruba
  • y let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called yí and written in the Latin script.
  • Y let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called yí and written in the Latin script.
• Zulu
  • y let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  • Y let. The twenty-fifth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• y n. Y.
• -y -ig, -achtig, vormt toegevoegd aan een zelfstandig naamwoord een bijvoeglijk naamwoord met de betekenis…
• -y -ig, -achtig, vormt toegevoegd aan een werkwoord een bijvoeglijk naamwoord met de betekenis "is geneigd tot".
• -y -je, -ie, vormt het verkleinwoord van een zelfstandig naamwoord (waaronder ook eigennamen).
• -y -ie, -ij, -heid vormt toegevoegd aan een bijvoeglijk naamwoord een zelfstandig naamwoord dat de betreffende…
• -y -ië vormt toegevoegd aan de benaming voor een volk de naam van een land of gebied.

— English words, defined in French —

• y let. Vingt-cinquième lettre et sixième voyelle de l’alphabet anglais, en minuscule.
• y sym. (Informatique) Abréviation de yes. Oui.
• Y let. Vingt-cinquième lettre et sixième voyelle de l’alphabet anglais, en majuscule.
• Y n. (Colorimétrie) Y. Une des valeurs tristimulus de CIE XYZ. Note : On dit big Y ou cap Y pour le distinguer de y.
• -y suff. Suffixe de certains noms communs.
• -y suff. Suffixe qui forme des noms enfantins ou familiers.
• -y suff. Suffixe qui forme des adjectifs d’un nom commun, avec le sens « qui a la qualité de ».

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• y let. Vigesimoquinta letra y vigésima consonante del abecedario inglés. Se llama wye.
• -y suf. Forma adjetivos a partir de sustantivos y otros adjetivos con el significado de "contener la cualidad"…
• -y suf. Forma adjetivos a partir de verbos con el significado de "inclinado a hacer" la acción propia de la…
• -y suf. Indica tamaño, duración, cantidad o cualidad menores, pues forma diminutivos.: -ito, -ín.
• -y suf. Aparece en sustantivos, generalmente derivados del francés medio y latín, de carácter abstracto o genérico…
• -y suf. Aparece en topónimos que terminan en -ia en latín.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• -y suff. Aggiunto a sostantivi e aggettivi per formare aggettivi dal significato "che ha le qualità di".
• -y suff. Aggiunto ai verbi per formare aggettivi dal significato "incline a".
• -y suff. Aggiunto ai sostantivi per formare diminutivi.
• -y suff. Aggiunto per formare sostantivi astratti che denotano uno stato, condizione o qualità.

— In German —

• y S. Die Kleinschreibeform/Minuskel des 25. Buchstaben des lateinischen…
• Y S. Fünfundzwanzigster Buchstabe des lateinischen Alphabets.
• Y Abk. Kfz-Kennzeichen der Deutschen Bundeswehr.
• y. Abk. Y.
• y. Abk. Abkürzung für Yard.
• Y! Abk. Typisch Mann.
• Y. Abk. Y.
• Y. Abk. Abkürzung für Yard.

— In Dutch —

• y n. (Taalkunde) de vijfentwintigste letter van het alfabet.
• Y n. (Taalkunde) hoofdletter van de y, de vijfentwintigste letter…

— In Latin —

• Y n.subs. Y, paenultima littera alphabeti Romani.

— In French —

• y let.m. Vingt-cinquième lettre et sixième voyelle de l’alphabet…
• y let.m. (Populaire) Variante de lui.
• y pron. À ceci, à cela, à ça, à cette personne.
• y pron. (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) (Bourgogne) (Suisse) Ça (comme COD).
• y pron. (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) (Bourgogne) (Suisse) (Paris) Lui…
• y pron. (Populaire) Il.
• y pron.m. (Populaire) Contraction de il ou ils, dans le langage…
• y adv. Ici, là, à cet endroit.
• y part. (Vieilli) (Familier) Variante orthographique du marqueur…
• y n.m. (Colorimétrie) Coordonnée colorimétrique calculée par Y…
• Y let.m. Vingt-cinquième lettre et sixième voyelle de l’alphabet…
• Y n.prop. (Géographie) Commune française, située dans le département…
• Y n.m. (Colorimétrie) Une des valeurs tristimulus de CIE XYZ…
• ÿ let.m. Y tréma, lettre utilisée pour prononcer le y seul, et…
• Ÿ let.m. Y tréma (majuscule), ne se retrouve que dans des noms…
• Ｙ n.m. (Familier) Ce qui a la forme de la lettre Y.
• -y suff. Suffixe toponymique fréquent dans le nord de la France.
• y’ pron. (Missouri) Forme contractée de lui (COI).

— In Spanish —

• y let. Vigesimosexta letra del alfabeto español y vigésima consonante…
• y conj. Conjunción copulativa que concluye una enumeración.
• y conj. Al principio de una frase intensifica lo dicho a continuación.
• y conj. Iniciando una frase interrogativa equivale a "qué pasó…
• y adv. Allí (indica un lugar relativamente cercano al hablante).
• Y let. Vigesimosexta letra del alfabeto español y vigésima consonante…

— In Portuguese —

• y s. Ípsilon, a vigésima quinta letra do alfabeto latino.

— In Italian —

• y lett. (Grammatica, grecismi) Venticinquesima lettera dell’ alfabeto latino.
• y lett. (Matematica) Simbolo matematico usato nei calcoli aritmetici…

717 English words from 411 English definitions

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Lepidopterology letter level Lezgi ligature light like list Lisu literary Lithuanian locations locative locative␣case long loop Lorentz␣factor Lower lowercase Macedonian macron main main␣clause majuscule Malay male Mansi many Mari mark marked marker markers markings marks masculine mass mathematics meaning means medicine medium meson messaging Metrology Middle Middle␣Egyptian mimic minuscule modern Modern␣Greek Moldovan Mongolian mood more mostly moth Music must name names near Nenets Neo Neo-Tifinagh New nicknames ninth Nivkh Nominalizes nominative nominative␣case non Nonstandard North North␣America northern Norwegian not notation noun noun␣phrases nouns now number number␣four numeral numerals numerical Nupe object objects obsolete Occasionally occur of␣a of␣all often ogonek old Old␣Egyptian one only Optionally Orok Oscan Ossetian ownership oxia palatalization palatalized participle participles particle particular particularly parts passive passive␣participle past past␣participle past␣participles patient people perfective person personal personal␣pronoun pet pet␣names Philippines Phoenician phonetic phonetic␣alphabet photon phrases physician Physics Pinyin place plural poetry point Poison Polish position possession possessive possessor postposition preceded precisely prefix preverbal price primarily print productive prohibitive pronoun publications purpose pyrimidine quality question railroad Rarely ratio ray Really reference relative relative␣clauses rely represent represented representing represents resembling reservation ring River Roman Romanian romanized Roman␣numeral rounded rounded␣vowel run run␣by Russian Saanich science Scribal script second second␣person sentence Serbo-Croatian series seventh several shape shaped she short Short␣for short␣u singular sixth sixty sixty-seventh slang Slavic Slovak small small␣caps sold Somali some someone something Southern Southern␣Altai spelling Standard state stative stative␣verb stem Stenoscript stroke struck subject subjective subject␣pronoun subjunctive subordinate subordinate␣clause such such␣as suffix support syllabary syllable symbol Tabasaran Tajik take Tatar telescope television terms terms␣of␣endearment text text␣messaging texts that that␣is the them the␣quality There they third third␣person third-person␣singular thirtieth thirty thirty-first thirty-ninth thirty-second thirty-seventh thirty-third this thorn Tifinagh tilde time together together␣with tonos to␣the to␣the␣letter towards transcribed transitive transitive␣verb transitive␣verbs Travel Tree truly Tundra Turkish Turkmen Tuvan twentieth twenty twenty-eighth twenty-fifth twenty-first twenty-fourth twenty-ninth twenty-second twenty-seventh twenty-sixth twenty-third typically tyrosine Udmurt Ugh Ukrainian unspecified upper upper␣case upsilon upsilon␣meson used used␣to usually Uzbek value variant various velar verb verb␣form verb␣forms verbs version Vietnam Vietnamese vocative voiced vowel was water waw weak weak␣verbs Welsh West West␣Africa Western Western␣Mari What when which whole whom why with without word Wow writing written wye Yakut year yen yes Yet YMCA yocto- Yoruba yotta- you Younger youth Y-shaped yttrium yuan yuck YWCA Zulu

70 English words from 61 foreign definitions

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4 foreign words from 411 English definitions

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181 foreign words from 61 foreign definitions

aan abecedario Abkürzung Abréviation abstracto acción -achtig a␣continuación adjectifs adjetivos aggettivi Aggiunto alfabet alfabeto␣latino Allí Alpes anglais Aparece a␣partir␣de aritmetici astratti avec betekenis betreffende bijvoeglijk bijvoeglijk␣naamwoord Buchstabe Buchstaben Bundeswehr calcoli calculée cantidad carácter ceci cela Ce␣qui cercano certains cet cette CIE cinquième Colorimétrie colorimétrique comme commun communs concluye condizione Conjunción consonante contener continuación contractée Coordonnée copulativa cualidad de␣la denotano derivados Deutschen dicho diminutivos distinguer duración eigennamen endroit enfantins enumeración español Familier familiers forma formare française francés francés␣medio frase fréquent Fünfundzwanzigster für gebied generalmente genérico Géographie Grammatica grecismi hablante hacer -heid hoofdletter Ici ils inclinado Informatique inglés Iniciando intensifica interrogativa Ípsilon -ito Kennzeichen Kfz Kfz-Kennzeichen langage lateinischen latín letra lettera littera lugar lui marqueur Matematica matematico menores Minuskel naamwoord nei nom␣commun noms␣communs nord orthographique otros partir pasó personne Populaire principio prononcer propia pues qualità qualité qué qui relativamente retrouve seul significado significato Simbolo située sixième sostantivi stato Suffixe Suisse sustantivos Taalkunde tamaño terminan toegevoegd topónimos toponymique Typisch una Une uno usato utilisée valeurs valeurs␣tristimulus Variante verbi verbos verkleinwoord Vieilli vigésima Vigesimoquinta Vigesimosexta vijfentwintigste Vingt Vingt-cinquième voor vormt voyelle waaronder werkwoord zelfstandig zelfstandig␣naamwoord

5452 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

ya Ya YA yb Yb YB YC yd yd. Y/D ye Ye YE yͤ yf YF yh yi Yi yk Yk YK Yk. YL -yl YN y/n Y/N yo YO y/o yo' y.o. yp Yp YP yr ys Ys y's Y's yt YT yͭ Y.T. Y.␣T. yu Yu Yu. yw YW +5401 words

117508 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

aya Aya AYA aye Aye AYE AYH ayn Ayn AYN ayo AYO AYP ayr Ayr ays AYs AYT ayu Ayu ayy bye Bye 'bye BYF BYM byo BYO BYP byp. by'r bys b'ys by't BYU cya CYA cyc Cyd CYF CyI cyl. cyn- CYO CYP Cyr Cyr. CYs cyt- d'ya +117458 words

68725 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

ay AY -ay ay^ by -by b'y by- Cy CY -cy Cy. dy Dy ey -ey fy FY -fy Hy jy ky Ky KY Ky. ly Ly LY -ly ly- my My MY my- ny NY N.Y. N.␣Y. oy py PY py- qy. -ry Ry. Sy SY ty Ty TY -ty +68674 words

110 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

ay AY -ay ay^ by -by b'y by- Cy CY -cy Cy. dy Dy ey -ey fy FY -fy Hy jy ky Ky KY Ky. ly Ly LY -ly ly- my My MY my- ny NY N.Y. N.␣Y. oy py PY py- qy. -ry Ry. Sy SY ty Ty TY -ty +59 words

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