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W U+0057, W
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W
← V
[U+0056] 		Basic Latin X →
[U+0058]
Character variations
Ｗ U+FF37, Ｗ
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W
← Ｖ
[U+FF36] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Ｘ →
[U+FF38]
Languages (36)
Translingual • English
Afar • Afrikaans • Basque • Central Franconian • Chinese • Danish • Dutch • Esperanto • Finnish • German • Hungarian • Ido • Italian • Japanese • Kashubian • Lower Sorbian • Malay • Navajo • Norwegian • Nupe • Polish • Portuguese • Romani • Romanian • Saanich • Silesian • Slovene • Somali • Spanish • Swedish • Tagalog • Welsh • Yoruba • Zulu
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Translingual

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From a modification of the Latin letter V (“ve”), from the Etruscan letter 𐌖 (u, “u”), from the Ancient Greek letter Υ (U, “ypsilon”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤅 (w, “waw”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓏲.

Its use as a symbol for tungsten is based on German Wolfram.

Letter

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W (lower case w)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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Symbol

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W

  1. (chemistry) Symbol for tungsten.
  2. (metrology) Symbol for watt.
  3. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for tryptophan.
  4. (physics) work
  5. (historical) Wedgwood scale of temperature
  6. (Voice Quality Symbols) whisper

Derived terms

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  • Letter styles
  • Uppercase and lowercase versions of W, in normal and italic type
    Uppercase and lowercase versions of W, in normal and italic type
  • Uppercase and lowercase W in Fraktur
    Uppercase and lowercase W in Fraktur

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Other representations of W:

English

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Pronunciation

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Name of letter

Etymology 1

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Letter

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W (upper case, lower case w, plural Ws or W's)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, called double U and written in the Latin script.
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Etymology 2

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Abbreviations of various words beginning with W.

Noun

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W (plural Ws)

  1. Abbreviation of women (sign on toilet door).
    Coordinate term: M (“men”)
    • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 332:
      From the Kierkegaard Room he lopingly careened through a red-carpeted hallway that had previously vouchsafed him a comfort station but this morning seemed all business, no M or W in sight, just salons and boutiques and the Ingmar Bergman Cinema.
  2. (uncountable) Abbreviation of west.
    Coordinate terms: E (“east”), N (“north”), S (“south”)
  3. Abbreviation of Wednesday.
    Synonyms: Wed, Wed.
    Coordinate terms: Su, M, Tu, Th, F, Sa
  5. (sports) Abbreviation of wins (statistic).
    Coordinate terms: L (“losses”), T (“ties”)
  7. (countable, Internet slang) Abbreviation of win.
    Coordinate term: L (“loss”)
    You say that like it's not an absolute W.
  8. (cricket) Abbreviation of wicket.
  9. (law enforcement) Abbreviation of warrant.
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Translations
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Adjective

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W (comparative more W, superlative most W)

  1. (slang) Excellent, top-notch (abbreviation of winner). (Compare noun sense 4 and sense 5.)
    Antonym: L (“bad, subpar”)
    You, sir, are a W man.
    You got her number? W rizz!

Proper noun

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W

  1. (US politics, informal) George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).
    Synonyms: Dubya, GWB

Noun

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W

  1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of week.
  2. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of west.

Afar

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Letter

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W

  1. The twentieth letter in the Afar alphabet.

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Afrikaans

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Pronunciation

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  • (letter name): IPA(key): /vɪə/

Letter

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W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Noun

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W (plural W's, diminutive W'tjie)

  1. W

Basque

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ube bikoi̯t͡s̻/, [u.β̞e̞ β̞i.ko̞i̯t͡s̻]

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W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Basque alphabet, called uve bikoitz and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

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  • Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

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Central Franconian

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Etymology

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  • /ʋ/ is from West Germanic stem-initial *w.
  • For the origin of /v/, see V.

Pronunciation

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  • /ʋ/, (chiefly Moselle Franconian also) /v/, (coda) [f]

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W

  1. A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
  2. A letter in the Dutch-based alphabet of Central Franconian.

Usage notes

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Systems for the use of W
  • /ʋ/ is regularly represented by w in all systems.
  • In the German-based spelling of Moselle Franconian, /v/ is normally spelt w as it is a post-vocalic allophone of /ʋ/.
  • In the German-based spelling of Ripuarian, /v/ is normally spelt v, but w may be used in iwig, Löw, Möw after the German cognate. A phonemic distinction from /ʋ/ is doubtful and exists at most in very rare cases.
  • In Aachen and the Netherlands there is a clear phonemic distinction between w /ʋ/ and v /v/, and these are thus kept apart.
Doubling of W and use in the syllable coda
  • In the German-based spelling, w is doubled after short vowels except in certain function words and when the letter is followed by another consonant within the word stem. In the syllable coda, the choice between w and f may be based on internal analogy, but f is often used throughout or after the German cognate.
  • In the Dutch-based spelling, w is doubled after short vowels if the syllable were otherwise open.

Chinese

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Numeral

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W

  1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of 萬 / 万 (wàn)

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation 1

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Note: buliu often merged into one syllable..
Note: dap1 bou4 ju4, dap1 - Hong Kong.
Note: li eq - often realised as one syllable.
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W

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2

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Letter
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W

  1. The twenty-third letter used in Pinyin.
Usage notes
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  • 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
  • The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Danish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /dɔbəlveː/, [ˈd̥ʌb̥əlˌveːˀ]

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W (lowercase w)

  1. the twenty-third letter of the Danish alphabet

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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W (capital, lowercase w)

  1. the twenty-third letter of the Dutch alphabet

Adverb

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W

  1. Abbreviation of west; west

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  • Previous letter: V
  • Next letter: X

Esperanto

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Noun

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W

  1. Abbreviation of uesto (“west”).

Finnish

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Etymology

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The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and W for information on the development of the glyph itself.

Letter

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W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. A letter of the Finnish alphabet, called kaksoisvee and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

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  • In the Finnish alphabet, W is a variant of V.
  • Used only in loanwords, old/archaic language and proper names with old spelling (e.g. Wirtanen). Specifically, W was still used when Finnish was typed in fraktur (blackletter), but as the Roman type replaced it in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, V took its place.

Derived terms

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compounds

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German

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Pronunciation

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  • (letter name) IPA(key): /veː/
  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /v/, [v], [ʋ]
    • /v/ is almost invariably [ʋ] in schw-, zw- (and qu-). Otherwise both are in free variation; as a broad tendency [v] is more northern, [ʋ] more southern.

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W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the German alphabet.

Noun

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W

  1. Abbreviation of West (“west”)

Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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  • (phoneme): IPA(key): [ˈv]
  • (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈduplɒveː]

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W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. A letter of the extended Hungarian alphabet, called dupla vé and written in the Latin script.

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative W W-k
accusative W-t W-ket
dative W-nek W-knek
instrumental W-vel W-kkel
causal-final W-ért W-kért
translative W-vé W-kké
terminative W-ig W-kig
essive-formal W-ként W-kként
essive-modal — —
inessive W-ben W-kben
superessive W-n W-ken
adessive W-nél W-knél
illative W-be W-kbe
sublative W-re W-kre
allative W-hez W-khez
elative W-ből W-kből
delative W-ről W-kről
ablative W-től W-ktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		W-é W-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		W-éi W-kéi
Possessive forms of W
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. W-m W-im
2nd person sing. W-d W-id
3rd person sing. W-je W-i
1st person plural W-nk W-ink
2nd person plural W-tek W-itek
3rd person plural W-jük W-ik

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Ido

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Pronunciation

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W (lower case w)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Italian

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Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it

Pronunciation

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  • (letter name):
  • (phonemic realization) IPA(key): /v/, /w/ (varies depending on the source language of the loanword)

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W f or m (invariable, upper case, lower case w)

  1. the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, called doppia vu or vu doppia in Italian

Usage notes

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  • The letter W is not considered part of the Italian alphabet. It is found mainly in loanwords.

Symbol

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W

  1. viva, evviva (“up with”)
    Antonym: M (“down with”)

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Further reading

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Japanese

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Noun

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W(ダブル) • (daburu) 

  1. Alternative spelling of ダブル (“double”)

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Kashubian

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Etymology

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The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and W for development of the glyph itself.

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W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Lower Sorbian

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Pronunciation

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W (lower case w)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Lower Sorbian alphabet, called wej and written in the Latin script.

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Malay

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Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ms

Pronunciation

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  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): [dabliu], [dabəliu], [dabəlju], [dablju]
  • (Phoneme) IPA(key): [w]

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W

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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W (lower case w)

  1. A letter of the Navajo alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Norwegian

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W (upper case W, lower case w)

  1. the 23th letter of the Norwegian alphabet

Usage notes

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Only in loan words and foreign names. Also used in old inscriptions and texts instead of v.

Nupe

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Pronunciation

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W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Polish

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Etymology

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The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and W for development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

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W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Polish alphabet, called wu and written in the Latin script.

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Portuguese

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Letter

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W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Romani

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Letter

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W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. A letter used to represent the voiced labial-velar approximant (/w/) in the International Standard orthography.

References

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  • Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “w”, in ニューエクスプレス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 16

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called dublu ve or dublu vî and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

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Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

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Saanich

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Pronunciation

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W

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Silesian

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Etymology

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The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and W for development of the glyph itself.

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W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Silesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Slovene

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Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sl

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W (capital, lowercase w)

  1. The thirty-second letter of the Slovene alphabet (Resian), written in the Latin script.

Somali

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Pronunciation

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  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /w/, /u̯/, /ʉ̯/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /wæʉ̯/

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W upper case (lower case w)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Somali alphabet, called waw and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

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  1. The twentieth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by N and followed by H.

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (phoneme) /w/, /ɡw/, /β/
  • IPA(key): (letter name) /ˌube ˈdoble/ [ˌu.β̞e ˈð̞o.β̞le]
  • IPA(key): (letter name) /ˈdoble ˌbe/ [ˈd̪o.β̞le ˌβ̞e]

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W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. the 24th letter of the Spanish alphabet
    Synonyms: (Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico) doble u, (Latin America) doble ve, (Spain) uve doble, (Peru) ve doble

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Swedish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German W and English W, derived from Latin V, derived from Latin U.[1] First attested in 1717.[2]

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W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. the 23rd (or optional) letter of the Swedish alphabet

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  • Within most acronyms, the pronunciation of the separate letter is identical to that of V.
  • The letter is often described as an optional inclusion to the Swedish alphabet.
  • Since 2006 the letter has been categorised as a separate letter by the dictionary Svenska Akademins Ordlista (SAOL). Before that, it was viewed as a variant of the letter V and sorted thereunder.[3]

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  1. ^ W in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  2. ^ W in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  3. ^ 21 April 2006, Svenska språket har fått en ny bokstav (The Swedish language has received a new letter) in SVT Nyheter.

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English W. Each pronunciation has a different source:

  • Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English W.
  • Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character ᜏ (wa).

Formerly, the letter U was used to represent /w/ in the Spanish-based orthography.

Pronunciation

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W (upper case, lower case w, Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜊᜓᜎ᜔ᜌᜓ)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Filipino alphabet), called dobolyu and written in the Latin script.

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W (upper case, lower case w, Baybayin spelling ᜏ)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abakada alphabet), called wa and written in the Latin script.

Further reading

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  • “W”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called w and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by U and followed by Y.

Mutation

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  • W cannot be mutated but when representing a vowel, does take h-prothesis, for example with the word wy (“egg”):
Mutated forms of wy
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
wy unchanged unchanged hwy

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

  • However, when it represents the semivowel /w/, W cannot be mutated.
Mutated forms of wal
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
wal unchanged unchanged unchanged

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Further reading

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “W”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yoruba

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W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called wí and written in the Latin script.

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Zulu

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Letter

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W (upper case, lower case w)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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