Noun: wether
| Singular | wether |
| Plural | wethers |
Sample Sentences
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I am a tainted Weather of the flocke, / Meeteſt for death, the weakeſt kinde of fruite [c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 179, column 1:]
Nouns inflected like wether
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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”).
2. Cognates
3. 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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
wether', Old English Nouns '
weþer', Dutch Nouns '
weder', German Nouns '
Widder', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
vær', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
vêr', Swedish Nouns '
vädur', Icelandic Nouns '
veður', Latin Nouns '
vitulus'.
Verbs referencing "wether"
German Nouns
Widder, Latin Nouns
vitulus, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
vêr, Danish Nouns
vædder.