vay

(Inglés)

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

Frecuencia

A1
Etimología (Inglés)

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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