different between sweer vs seer

English

Alternative forms

• swear, sweir, swere

Etymology

From Middle English swere, sware, from Old English sw?r, sw?r (“heavy, of great weight, oppressive, grievous, painful, unpleasant, great, sad, feeling or expressing grief, grave, slow, dull, sluggish, slothful, indolent, inactive from weakness, enfeebled, weak”), from Proto-West Germanic *sw?r, from Proto-Germanic *sw?raz, *sw?rijaz (“heavy”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sw??/

Adjective

sweer (comparative more sweer, superlative most sweer)

1. (Britain dialectal) Heavy.
2. (Britain dialectal) Dull; indolent; lazy.
3. (Britain dialectal) Reluctant; unwilling; disinclined.

Anagrams

• Ewers, Weser, ewers, re-sew, resew, sewer, weres

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zweren, from Middle Dutch sweren, from Old Dutch *swerien, sweren, from Proto-Germanic *swarjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *swer-.

Verb

sweer (present sweer, present participle swerende, past participle gesweer)

1. to swear

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *sweur, *sw?r, from Proto-Germanic *swehuraz, from Proto-Indo-European *swé?uros.

Noun

swêer m

1. male in-law
2. father-in-law

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “sweer”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “sweer (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Scots

Adjective

sweer (comparative mair sweer, superlative maist sweer)

1. Alternative form of sweir

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??(?)/, /si??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?), -i??(?)
• Homophones: cere, sear, sihr

Etymology 1

see +? -er (“agent suffix”).

Noun

seer (plural seers)

1. One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.
2. One who sees something; an eyewitness.

Related terms

• seeress

Translations

Etymology 2

See sihr.

Noun

seer (plural seers)

1. Alternative form of sihr

Anagrams

• EERs, Erse, REEs, Rees, SERE, eres, rees, rese, sere

Danish

Etymology

From se (“to see”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se??r/, [?se???]
• Rhymes: -e???

Noun

seer c (singular definite seeren, plural indefinite seere)

1. viewer (someone who watches television)
2. seer (someone who foretells the future)

Inflection

Synonyms

• (viewer): fjernseer, kigger, kikker, tv-kigger, tv-kikker, tv-seer

Further reading

• seer on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch s?r, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz.

Adjective

sêer

1. painful, sore
2. sick

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• sêre

Descendants

• Dutch: zeer

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch s?r, from Proto-Germanic *sair?.

Noun

sêer n

1. pain, ache
2. sorrow, emotional pain

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: zeer

Further reading

• “seer (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “seer (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “seer (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “seer (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page II

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English s?ar.

Noun

seer

1. Alternative form of sere (“dry”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sér.

Adjective

seer

1. Alternative form of sere (“differing”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From se +? -er

Noun

seer m (definite singular seeren, indefinite plural seere, definite plural seerne)

1. (TV) a viewer
2. a seer, prophet

See also

• sjåar (Nynorsk)

References

• “seer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ser

Etymology

From Latin sed?re, present active infinitive of sede?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se.e?/

Verb

seer

1. to be

Conjugation

Descendants

• Galician: ser
• Portuguese: ser

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin sed?re, present active infinitive of sede?. As time passed, it merged with ser (“to be”), from Latin sum (“to be”).

Verb

seer

1. to be
2. to sit

See also

• eseyente