Weeze
Pennsylvania German
editEtymology
editCompare German Weizen, Dutch weit, English wheat.
Noun
editWeeze m
- wheat
- 1988, Pierce Edward Swope, "Wie ich en Bu waar", in Earl C. Haag, A Pennsylvania German Anthology, page 271.
- Wann mer Mischt un Kallick uffs Land hot, noh hot's en Latt Weeze gewwe.
- When one has manure and lime on the land, then it gave a lot of wheat.
- 1988, Pierce Edward Swope, "Wie ich en Bu waar", in Earl C. Haag, A Pennsylvania German Anthology, page 271.