different between weer vs wyer
weer
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /wi?.?/
- (US) IPA(key): /wi?.?/
Adjective
weer
- comparative form of wee: more wee
Anagrams
- Ewer, ewer, ewre, rewe, we're, were, were-
Balantak
Noun
weer
- water
Further reading
- Robert L. Busenitz, Marilyn J. Busenitz, Balantak Phonology and Morphophonemics (NUSA 33, 1991)
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?r/
- Rhymes: -e?r
- (common Belgian and South Dutch realisations) IPA(key): [we?r], [??e?r]
- (North and East of the Netherlands, audio example) IPA(key): [???r]
- (Gelders) IPA(key): [????]
Etymology 1
Contracted form of weder (“again”), from Proto-Germanic *wiþra (“against”), from Proto-Indo-European *wi-tero- (“more apart”), from *wi (“separation”).
Adverb
weer
- again
- 1888, Willem Kloos, “O, dat ik haten moet en niet vergeten!”
- Synonyms: nogmaals, opnieuw, weerom
- 1888, Willem Kloos, “O, dat ik haten moet en niet vergeten!”
- back
Derived terms
- alweer
- weeral
- al weer
- heen en weer
- weergeven
- weer-
Etymology 2
Contracted form of weder (“weather”), from Middle Dutch weder, from Old Dutch *wedar, from Proto-Germanic *wedr?, from Proto-Indo-European *wed?rom.
Noun
weer n (uncountable, diminutive weertje n)
- weather
Alternative forms
- weder (archaic)
Derived terms
Etymology 3
From Middle Dutch weder, from Old Dutch withar (“wether, ram”), from Proto-West Germanic *weþru, from Proto-Germanic *weþruz (“wether”), from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”).
Noun
weer m (plural weren, diminutive weertje n)
- wether
Alternative forms
- weder (archaic)
Etymology 4
From Latin verruca (“wart”)
Noun
weer n (uncountable)
- foxing (in textiles)
- callus
Etymology 5
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
weer m (plural weren, diminutive weertje n)
- knot in wood
- Synonyms: knoest, noest, kwast
Etymology 6
Noun
weer f (plural weren, diminutive weertje n)
- defense
- resistance
- (law, feudalism) seisin
Derived terms
- afweer
- verweer
- weerloos
- brandweer
- landweer
- weerstand
Etymology 7
Noun
weer f (plural weren, diminutive weertje n)
- (law, feudalism) seisin
Etymology 8
From Middle Dutch weer, from Old Dutch *wer-, from Proto-West Germanic *wer, from Proto-Germanic *weraz. Cognate with English were (“man”), Latin vir.
Noun
weer m (plural weren, diminutive weertje n)
- (archaic) man
- 1873, De Bo
- “Ga van hier, gij gloeiende weer!”
- “Begone, you evil man!”
- “Ga van hier, gij gloeiende weer!”
- 1873, De Bo
Related terms
- weerbeer
- weergeld
- weerwolf
- wereld
Etymology 9
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
weer
- first-person singular present indicative of weren
- imperative of weren
Anagrams
- were
Low German
Verb
weer
- first-person singular past of wesen
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English w?re (second-person singular indicative and subjunctive past of wesan).
Verb
weer
- Alternative form of were
Etymology 2
From Old English werre, wyrre.
Noun
weer
- Alternative form of werre
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wyer
English
Noun
wyer
- Obsolete form of weir.
- Obsolete form of wire.
Anagrams
- Wyre, ewry, wery, wyre
Yola
Noun
wyer
- weasel
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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