wier

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English

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Noun

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wier (plural wiers)

  1. Archaic form of weir.
    • 1819, James Dugdale, The New British Traveller: Or, Modern Panorama of England and Wales:
      The wier of this fishery is very large, and consists of a dam, ten or twelve feet high []

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ir

Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch wier (seaweed), possibly descended through Old Dutch from Proto-West Germanic *wair, related to *wīraz, or was borrowed from West Frisian.

Cognate with dialectal English ware (seaweed), Old English wār (seaweed).

Noun

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wier n (plural wieren, diminutive wiertje n)

  1. seaweed
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Before the 18th century, the word was sometimes considered to be feminine.

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Descendants
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  • Afrikaans: wier

Etymology 2

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Equivalent to wie +‎ -er (genitive feminine ending).

Pronoun

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wier

  1. (interrogative, archaic) whose (feminine, plural)
  2. (relative, dated) whose (feminine, plural)
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Luxembourgish

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /viːr/, [viə̯], [ˈviː.ɐ]

Verb

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wier

  1. first-person singular simple conditional of sinn
  2. third-person singular simple conditional of sinn

Saterland Frisian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vir/
  • Hyphenation: wier
  • Rhymes: -ir

Etymology 1

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From Old Frisian hwēr, from Proto-West Germanic *hwār. Cognates include West Frisian wêr and German wo.

Adverb

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wier

  1. where?
    Wier is dien Húus?Where is your house?
  2. where
    Iek weet wier dien Húus is.I know where your house is.

Etymology 2

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From Old Frisian wether, from Proto-West Germanic *wiþr, from Proto-Germanic *wiþrą. Cognates include Dutch weer and German wieder.

Adverb

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wier

  1. again
    Hääst du dät wier däin?Have you done it again?

References

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  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “wier”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

West Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian wēr, from Proto-West Germanic *wār.

Adjective

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wier

  1. real
  2. true

Inflection

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Inflection of wier
uninflected wier
inflected wiere
comparative wierder
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial wier wierder it wierst
it wierste
indefinite c. sing. wiere wierdere wierste
n. sing. wier wierder wierste
plural wiere wierdere wierste
definite wiere wierdere wierste
partitive wiers wierders

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Further reading

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  • wier (III)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011