hwer

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hweraz (“kettle”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xwer/, [ʍer]

Noun

hwer m

1. kettle, pot, basin, cooking vessel

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	hwer	hweras
accusative	hwer	hweras
genitive	hweres	hwera
dative	hwere	hwerum

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hwer”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.