weer
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
weer (plural weers)
- (UK, colloquial) Someone who wees, someone who urinates.
Etymology 2[edit]
Adjective[edit]
weer
- comparative form of wee: more wee
Anagrams[edit]
Balantak[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.
Noun[edit]
weer
Further reading[edit]
- Robert L. Busenitz, Marilyn J. Busenitz, Balantak Phonology and Morphophonemics (NUSA 33, 1991)
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ʋeːr/
- Rhymes: -eːr
- (common Belgian and South Dutch realisations) IPA(key): [weːr], [β̞eːr]
- (North and East of the Netherlands, audio example) IPA(key): [ʋɪːr]
audio (file) - (Guelders, Hollandic) IPA(key): [ʋɪːɹ]
Etymology 1[edit]
Contracted form of weder (“again”), from Middle Dutch wēder, from Old Dutch wither, from Proto-West Germanic *wiþr, from Proto-Germanic *wiþrą (“against”), from Proto-Indo-European *wit(e)rom (“more apart”), from *wi (“separation”).
Adverb[edit]
weer
- again, once more
- back
- Hij draaide zich om en liep weer terug naar huis.
- He turned around and walked back home.
- Ik moet mijn boek weer naar de bibliotheek brengen.
- I have to take my book back to the library.
Alternative forms[edit]
- (archaic) weder
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Contracted form of weder (“weather”), from Middle Dutch wēder, from Old Dutch *wedar, from Proto-West Germanic *wedr, from Proto-Germanic *wedrą, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰrom.
Noun[edit]
weer n (uncountable, diminutive weertje n)
Alternative forms[edit]
- (archaic) weder
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
From Middle Dutch wēre, from Old Dutch weri, from Proto-West Germanic *warī.
Noun[edit]
weer f (plural weren, diminutive weertje n)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 4[edit]
From Middle Dutch wēder, from Old Dutch withar (“wether, ram”), from Proto-West Germanic *weþru, from Proto-Germanic *weþruz (“wether”), from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”).
Noun[edit]
weer m (plural weren, diminutive weertje n)
Alternative forms[edit]
- (archaic) weder
Etymology 5[edit]
From Middle Dutch wêer. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *warzaz, but this leaves the vowel ê in Middle Dutch unexplained. Related to wrat and Latin verrūca.
Noun[edit]
weer n (uncountable)
Etymology 6[edit]
From older weder, from Middle Dutch wēder, from Old Dutch *wether, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaþar, from Proto-Germanic *hwaþeraz.
Conjunction[edit]
weer
Etymology 7[edit]
From Middle Dutch wēer, from Old Dutch *wer-, from Proto-West Germanic *wer, from Proto-Germanic *weraz.
Noun[edit]
weer m (plural weren, diminutive weertje n)
- (archaic) man
- 1873, De Bo, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- “Ga van hier, gij gloeiende weer!”
- “Begone, you evil man!”
Related terms[edit]
Etymology 8[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
weer
- inflection of weren:
Anagrams[edit]
Low German[edit]
Verb[edit]
weer
Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English wǣre (second-person singular indicative and subjunctive past of wesan).
Verb[edit]
weer
- Alternative form of were
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old English werre, wyrre.
Noun[edit]
weer
- Alternative form of werre
Wolof[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
weer (definite form weer wi)
References[edit]
Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 257
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