vay

(Anglès)

  1. (colloquial) woe, alas!
  2. Vay, vay, vay! (reminiscent of English exclamation "well, well, well")

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Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish وای (vay), from Persian وای (vây, “alas!”), from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with English woe, Latin vae, Lithuanian vai̇̃, Russian увы́ (uvý), Old Irish fae, among others.

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