wird

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vɪʁt/
Audio (file)
Homophone: Wirt

Verb

wird

Third-person singular present of werden.

Scots

Etymology

From Old English word (“word, speech, sentence, statement, command, order, subject of talk, story, news, report, fame, promise, verb”), from Proto-Germanic *wurdą (“word”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo- (“word”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [wɪrd], [wʌrd]

Noun

wird (plural wirds)

word
utterance, remark
the sound of one's voice, way of speaking

Derived terms

guid wirds (“children's prayers”)
horseman's wird (“a code word revealed on joining a horsemen's secret society”)
owerwird (“the chorus of poem or song”)
pit up a wird (“to say a prayer”)

speak a wird tae (“to admonish”)
sweir-wird (“swear-word”)
tryst-wird (“password”)

Verb

wird (third-person singular present wirds, present participle wirdin, past wirdt, past participle wirdt)

to express oneself

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