weþer – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of weþer

Noun: weþer
Gender: m

Nominative

Singularweþer
Pluralweþras; weþeras

Genitive

Singularweþres; weþeres
Pluralweþra; weþera

Dative

Singularweþre; weþere
Pluralweþrum; weþerum

Accusative

Singularweþer
Pluralweþras; weþeras

Sample Sentences

  • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
  • Him becōmon ēac swā miċele welan tō handa, þæt his bīġleofa wæs ælċe dæġ mid his hīrede þrittiġ mittan clǣnes melowes, and sixtiġ mittan ōðres melowes, twelf fǣtte oxan, and twēntiġ feldoxan, hundtēontiġ weðera, buton huntoðe and fugoloðe and ġemæstra fugela. (And so much wealth came into his hands that every day he and his household consumed thirty mittas of clean meal, sixty mittas of other meal, twelve fat oxen, twenty field-oxen, and one hundred wethers, not counting the sustenance from hunting, fowling, or fattened birds.)

Nouns inflected like weþer

weþer,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *weþru, from Proto-Germanic *weþruz (“a yearling lamb; wether”), from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”). Cognate with Latin vitulus. See: Latin Nouns 'vitulus'.

Verbs referencing "weþer"

English Nouns wether, Faroese Nouns veðrur, Gothic Nouns 𐍅𐌹𐌸𐍂𐌿𐍃.

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