wier

See also: Wier

English

Noun

wier (plural wiers)

  1. Archaic form of weir.
    • 1819, James Dugdale, The New British Traveller: Or, Modern Panorama of England and Wales
      The wier of this fishery is very large, and consists of a dam, ten or twelve feet high […]

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Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wier (“seaweed”), possibly descended through Old Dutch from Proto-Germanic, or was borrowed from Frisian. Cognate with dialectal English ware (“seaweed”), Old English war (“seaweed”).

Noun

wier n (plural wieren, diminutive wiertje n)

  1. seaweed
Usage notes

Before the 18th century, the word was sometimes considered to be feminine.

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Etymology 2

Pronoun

wier

  1. (interrogative, archaic) whose (feminine, plural)
  2. (relative, dated) whose (feminine, plural)

Luxembourgish

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Verb

wier

  1. first-person singular simple conditional of sinn
  2. third-person singular simple conditional of sinn

Saterland Frisian

Adverb

wier

  1. again

West Frisian

Adjective

wier (inflected wier, comparative wierer, superlative wierest)

  1. real
  2. true

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