wey

Meaning

Noun

An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.

Origin

From Middle English weie, waie, weihe, wæȝe, from Old English wǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Cognate with German Waage ("weight"), Icelandic vág ("a weight").

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