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4-letter words (3 found)

EWER,WEER,WERE,

3-letter words (6 found)

EEW,ERE,EWE,REE,REW,WEE,

2-letter words (5 found)

EE,ER,EW,RE,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 15 words from weer according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of weer

weer ewer weer ewer eewr eewr were ewre wree rwee erwe rewe were ewre wree rwee erwe rewe eerw eerw erew reew erew reew

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Definitions and meaning of weer

weer

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /wiː.ə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /wiː.ɚ/

Etymology 1

wee +‎ -er

Noun

weer (plural weers)

  1. (UK, colloquial) Someone who wees, someone who urinates.

Etymology 2

Adjective

weer

  1. comparative form of wee: more wee

Anagrams

  • Ewer, ewer, ewre, rewe, we're, were, were-

Balantak

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

Noun

weer

  1. water

Further reading

  • Robert L. Busenitz, Marilyn J. Busenitz, Balantak Phonology and Morphophonemics (NUSA 33, 1991)

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • 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]
  • (Guelders, Hollandic) IPA(key): [ʋɪːɹ]

Etymology 1

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

weer

  1. again, once more
    Synonyms: nogmaals, opnieuw, wederom, terug
  2. back
Alternative forms
  • (archaic) weder
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: were
  • Jersey Dutch: wêr
  • Negerhollands: weer

Etymology 2

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

weer n (uncountable, diminutive weertje n)

  1. weather
Alternative forms
  • (archaic) weder
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: weri
  • Negerhollands: weer
  • → Ambonese Malay: wer
  • → Aukan: wei

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch wēre, from Old Dutch weri, from Proto-West Germanic *warī.

Noun

weer f (plural weren, diminutive weertje n)

  1. defense
  2. resistance
  3. (law, feudalism) seisin
Derived terms

Etymology 4

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

weer m (plural weren, diminutive weertje n)

  1. wether
Alternative forms
  • (archaic) weder

Etymology 5

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

weer n (uncountable)

  1. callus
  2. knot in wood
    Synonyms: knoest, noest, kwast
  3. foxing (in textiles)

Etymology 6

From older weder, from Middle Dutch wēder, from Old Dutch *wether, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaþar, from Proto-Germanic *hwaþeraz.

Conjunction

weer

  1. (obsolete) whether

Etymology 7

From Middle Dutch wēer, from Old Dutch *wer-, from Proto-West Germanic *wer, from Proto-Germanic *weraz.

Noun

weer m (plural weren, diminutive weertje n)

  1. (archaic) man
Related terms

Etymology 8

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

weer

  1. inflection of weren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams

  • were

Low German

Verb

weer

  1. first-person singular past of wesen

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wǣre (second-person singular indicative and subjunctive past of wesan).

Verb

weer

  1. Alternative form of were

Etymology 2

From Old English werre, wyrre.

Noun

weer

  1. Alternative form of werre

Wolof

Pronunciation

Noun

weer (definite form weer wi)

  1. moon
  2. month

References

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 257


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