Noun: wer
Gender: m
Sample Sentences
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forþon ne mæġ wearþan wīs · wer, ǣr hē āge
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wintra dǣl in woruldrīċe. · Wita sċeal ġeþyldiġ. (thus a man cannot become wise, before he would own
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a part of years in world-kingdom. A wise man must be patient.) [10th century, The Wanderer:]
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Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
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...ðā ðā hǣðenan āhēowon þæt trēow mid ormǣtre blisse, þæt hit brastliende sāh tō ðām hālgan were, hetelīċe swīðe. Þā worhte hē onġēan ðām hrēosendum trēowe þǣs Hǣlendes rōde tācn, and hit ðǣrrihte ætstōd, wende ðā onġēan, and hrēas underbæc, and fornēan offēoll ðā ðe hit ǣr forcurfon. (Then the heathens cut down the tree with great joy, so that, rustling, it fell towards the holy man very violently. Then he made the sign of the Savior's cross to the falling tree, and it immediately stood still, turned around, and fell backwards, and almost fell upon those who had previously cut it.)
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c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English
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Ǣġþer is mann ġe wer ġe wīf. (A person is either a male or a female.)
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werrēaf (civil dress, civil clothing)
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werþēod (people, nation)
Nouns inflected like wer
feohtling,
seoloþ,
seonoþ,
sacerd,
sleaht,
bealluc,
uprodor,
fugoloþ,
hoppsteort,
pearroc,
swiccræft,
penning,
mæssesang,
weorccræft,
tordwifel,
sandpytt,
discipul,
wyrmhord,
underling,
pundfald, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-West Germanic *wer, from Proto-Germanic *weraz.
2. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old High German wer, Old Norse verr, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂 (wair). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin vir, Sanskrit वीर (vīrà), Old Irish fer, Lithuanian výras. See: Old Norse Nouns '
verr', Gothic Nouns '
𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂', Latin Nouns '
vir'.
Verbs referencing "wer"
Irish Nouns
fear, Latin Nouns
vir, English Nouns
wer, Middle English Nouns
wer, English Nouns
weir.
Translations