wazzer
English
editNoun
editwazzer (plural wazzers)
- (UK, derogatory) A stupid or annoying person; a wazzock.
Middle High German
editEtymology
editEtymology tree
From Old High German wazzar, from Proto-West Germanic *watar, from Proto-Germanic *watōr, from Proto-Indo-European *wédōr, collective of *wódr̥.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwaȥȥer n
Declension
editDeclension of waȥȥer (neuter, a-stem)
Descendants
edit- Alemannic German: Wasser, Wâser
- Bavarian: Wåsser, Wossa
- Central Franconian: Wasser, Waßer
- East Central German:
- German: Wasser
- Unserdeutsch: Wasser
- Luxembourgish: Waasser
- Rhine Franconian: Wasser
- Vilamovian: wosser, woser
- Yiddish: וואַסער (vaser)
References
edit- Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “waȥȥer”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke[1], Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
- Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)
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