wiet
Afrikaans edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
wiet
- (Cape Afrikaans) Alternative form of weet.
Central Franconian edit
Alternative forms edit
- wick (Kölsch)
- weck (other Ripuarian)
- weit (Moselle Franconian)
Etymology edit
From Old High German (*)wīd, northern variant of wīt, from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
wiet (masculine wijje or wiede, feminine wie or wiet, comparative wijjer or wieder, superlative et wietste)
Usage notes edit
- The forms with loss of -d- are western (around Aachen), the others are northern (around Düsseldorf).
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English weed (“marijuana”), from Middle English weed, from Old English wēod (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *weud. Doublet of wied (“unwanted plant”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
wiet m (uncountable)
Derived terms edit
Anagrams edit
Saterland Frisian edit
Etymology edit
From Old Frisian hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt. Cognates include German weiß and West Frisian wyt.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
wiet (masculine wieten, feminine, plural or definite wiete, comparative wieter, superlative wietst)
References edit
West Frisian edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
wiet
Inflection edit
Inflection of wiet | ||||
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uninflected | wiet | |||
inflected | wiete | |||
comparative | wieter | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | wiet | wieter | it wietst it wietste | |
indefinite | c. sing. | wiete | wietere | wietste |
n. sing. | wiet | wieter | wietste | |
plural | wiete | wietere | wietste | |
definite | wiete | wietere | wietste | |
partitive | wiets | wieters | — |
Further reading edit
- “wiet (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011