watter

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

  • waffer (obsolete)

Etymology

Contraction of wat vir, from Dutch wat voor (“what a, what kind of”).

Determiner

watter

  1. what; which
    Watter boeke lees jy?
    What books do you read?

Alemannic German

Noun

watter

  1. (Rimella, Campello Monti) rain

References

  • Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words]. Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

Scots

Etymology

From Old English wæter, from Proto-Germanic *watōr, from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥.

Noun

watter (countable and uncountable, plural watters)

  1. water
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