different between wert vs wrt

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /w?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Verb

wert

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of be

   Synonym: wast

   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, To A Skylark, (first two lines of ode),

     "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, ..."

2. (archaic) second-person singular simple past subjunctive of be

   Synonym: were

   • 1611, The Bible, King James (Authorised) Version, (first & last usages),

     Job 8:6 "If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, ..."

     Revelation 3:15 "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot."

References

• “wert”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “wert” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

See also

Anagrams

• Trew, trew

German

Etymology

From Middle High German wert, from Old High German werd, from Proto-Germanic *werþaz. See the English cognate worth for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve???t/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /v???t/ (equally common)

Adjective

wert (comparative werter, superlative am wertesten)

1. (with accusative) worth something, worthy of something

2. (formal, with genitive) worthy of someone

3. (formal) dear

Usage notes

• In older usage, wert was generally construed with a genitive object: Das ist der Mühe nicht wert. This is now archaic, except in fixed expressions. For example: Wer den Pfennig nicht ehrt, ist des Talers nicht wert. — “Who doesn't honour the penny, isn't worthy of the dollar.” (A saying equivalent to “A penny saved is a penny earned”.)
• The genitive case is still used when the object of wert is a person (or a group, organization, etc.). However, this usage is quite rare and würdig is more common instead.

Declension

Derived terms

• wertfrei
• wertlos

Related terms

• Wert

Further reading

• “wert” in Duden online

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *wert, *wirt, from Proto-Germanic *werduz.

Noun

wert m

1. host
2. innkeeper

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• w?ert
• w?ert

Descendants

• Dutch: waard

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

wert

1. inflection of werden:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   3. singular/plural imperative

Further reading

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

wert

1. Alternative form of wort (“plant”)

Etymology 2

Noun

wert

1. Alternative form of vert

Adjective

wert

1. Alternative form of vert

Etymology 3

Noun

wert

1. Alternative form of warte

Northern Kurdish

Noun

wert ?

1. descendence

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Wert.

Noun

wert m

1. value

Wolof

Etymology

From French verte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?rt/

Verb

wert

1. to be green

English

Preposition

wrt

1. Alternative spelling of WRT

Anagrams

• RTW

Egyptian

Etymology 1

wr (“great”) +? -t (adverbializing suffix).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /w?r?t/
  • Conventional anglicization: weret

Adverb

1. very

Usage notes

This adverb is one of the few elements that can intervene between the predicate of an adjectival sentence and its subject (thus directly following the initial adjective).

Etymology 2

wr (“great”) +? -t (feminine suffix).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /w?r?t/
  • Conventional anglicization: weret

Noun

 f

1. (female) great one (common epithet for goddesses)

Inflection

Proper noun

 f

1. a sacred barque

Alternative forms

Proper noun

 f

1. the Red Crown

Proper noun

 f

1. Alternative form of wrrt (“the White Crown”)

References

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, ?ISBN, page 330.1–330.6, 331.1–331.3, 331.15–332.10
• Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, ?ISBN, page 64
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, 95 page 71, 95.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wyrt (“plant, herb”).

Noun

wrt

1. Alternative form of wort (“plant”)

Etymology 2

From Old English wyrt, wyrte (“wort”).

Noun

wrt

1. Alternative form of wort (“brewing wort”)