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wether

noun
/ˈwɛðɚ/US/ˈwɛðə/UK/ˈweðə/

Etymology

From Middle English wether, wethir, wedyr, from Old English weþer (“a wether, ram”), from Proto-West Germanic *weþru, from Proto-Germanic *weþruz (“wether”), from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”). Cognates Cognate with Scots weddir, woddir, wadder (“wether”), Dutch weder, weer (“wether”), German Widder (“wether, ram”), Norwegian Bokmål vær (“ram”), Norwegian Nynorsk vêr (“ram”), Swedish vädur (“wether, ram”), Icelandic veður (“wether, ram”), Latin vitulus (“calf”).

  1. derived from *wet-✻ — “year”
  2. inherited from *weþruz✻ — “wether”
  3. inherited from *weþru✻
  4. inherited from weþer — “a wether, ram”
  5. inherited from wether

Definitions

  1. A castrated goat.

  2. A castrated ram.

    • I am a tainted Weather of the flocke, / Meeteſt for death, the weakeſt kinde of fruite

  3. To castrate a male sheep or goat.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Archaic spelling of weather.

      • There was a great fyer in the chamber, the wether was colde, and I saw now and then a Bishop come out;

The neighborhood

Derived

bellwether

Vish — recursive loop

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