wylie
wylie Lexical Profile
• noun
Scottish A surname of Scottish origin.
"Professor Wylie presented his latest archaeological findings at the international symposium in Edinburgh."
American A city located primarily in Collin County, Texas, United States, situated in the northeastern Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.
A widely used method for transliterating the Tibetan script into the standard Latin alphabet, developed by Turrell V. Wylie.
"Scholars of Tibetan Buddhism frequently rely on Wylie to consistently represent complex Tibetan spellings in English academic texts."
Word Nuance & Usage
As a noun, it is almost exclusively capitalized as a proper noun (Wylie). It should not be confused with the homophonic adjective 'wily', which means cunning or deceitful.
• Rhymes for wylie
Word Origin & Etymology
As a surname, it is of Scottish origin, likely derived from a diminutive of William or from a habitational place name in Ayrshire. The Tibetan transliteration system is named after the American scholar Turrell V. Wylie, who standardized it in 1959.
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