Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs.
From weel + -y. Alternatively, a continuation of Middle English wili, whily, from Old English wylie, a variant of wyliġe, wiliġe (“basket”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "af",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "weel",
"3": "-y",
"id2": "diminutive"
},
"expansion": "weel + -y"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "wili"
},
"expansion": "Middle English wili"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "wylie"
},
"expansion": "Old English wylie"
}
],
"links": [
[
"weel",
"weel#English"
],
[
"-y",
"-y#English:_diminutive"
],
[
"wili",
"wili#Middle_English"
],
[
"whily",
"whily#Middle_English"
],
[
"wylie",
"wylie#Old_English"
],
[
"wyliġe",
"wylige#Old_English"
],
[
"wiliġe",
"wilige#Old_English"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "noun",
"glosses": [
"A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs."
],
"tags": [],
"recordId": "a530694cec52a6a552480bab0c5d83041f1887a6e1ea1055a50d567d3edd7e89",
"rawRecordSha256": "e37ce53b31a3827efd96423575c6233c044aef5b45d06227234fabc23afb3b2d",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 4428459
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 0,
"glosses": 0
}
}