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