vier

From vie +‎ -er.

vier (plural viers)

1. One who vies for something.
   • 1991, Diane Lynch Fraser, Playdancing, page 90:

     Evidently, there were two children vying for a third's attention. The two attention viers were engaged in a series of gymnastic feats on a small portable trampoline. Two girls were trying to outdo each other to impress the third child, a boy.

• Rive, Irve, iver, vire, Iver, rive

From Dutch vier, from Middle Dutch vier, from Old Dutch viuwar, vier, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.

• IPA^(key): /fir/

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vier

1. four

From Middle High German vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr. Cognate with German vier, Dutch vier, English four, Icelandic fjórir.

• IPA^(key): /fiər/

vier

1. four

• Zvieri

• viere
• via, fiar (spelling)

• IPA^(key): /fiɐ̯/

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vier

1. four

From Middle High German vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

• IPA^(key): /fiə̯/

vier

1. (most dialects) four

• IPA^(key): /vir/, , ,

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• Hyphenation: vier
• Rhymes: -ir

From Middle Dutch vier, from Old Dutch viuwar, vier, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.

vier

1. four

• Afrikaans: vier
• Berbice Creole Dutch: firi
• Jersey Dutch: vîr
• Negerhollands: vier, veer, fi
• Skepi Creole Dutch: firi
• → Trió: pirë

vier m (plural vieren, diminutive viertje n)

1. a sign for or representation of four

   De vier op zijn shirt was nauwelijks meer te zien. ― The four on his shirt was barely visible anymore.

2. the value four, e.g. as a score

   Hij had veel onvoldoendes, drie vijven en een vier. ― He had many failing grades, three fives and one four.

3. (uncountable) a group of four

   Die vier zijn natuurlijk blij, maar laten we ook denken aan het verdriet van de vier die zijn afgewezen. ― Those four are of course happy, but let us also think of the sadness of the four who were rejected.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vier

1. inflection of vieren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

vier

1. (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular future subjunctive of vir

From Middle High German vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres. Compare Dutch vier, English four, Danish fire, Swedish fyra.

• IPA^(key): /fiːr/,

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• Rhymes: -iːɐ̯

vier

1. (cardinal number) four (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 4; or describing a set with four elements)
   • 1682, Benignus Kybler, WunderSpiegl Oder Göttliche Wunderwerck. Dritter und letzter Theil, page 144:

     Bey Ablauffung der fünfften Wochen/ erschine ihr die Himmel-Königin abermahlen/ vnd raichet ein Himmlisches Getranck dar/ welches sie mit allgebürender Ehrerbütigkeit angenommen vnd genossen/ zumahlen sich dermassen erhollet hat / daß ihre Stärcke vnnd Leibs-Kräften weit grösser dann zuvoren/ nit leicht auch von vieren Männern kundte überwunden werden.

     At the elapsion of the fifth week / the heavenly queen appeared to her again / and proferred to her a heavenly drink / that she accepted with appropriate reverence and enjoyed / all the more as she recuperated to such an extent / that her strength and health were much higher than before / and she could not easily be overcome by four men.

Normally uninflected, but note the following:

• viere (now colloquial, used independently of a noun), e.g. Die Turmuhr schlug viere. ― The clock tower struck four.
• genitive: vierer (literary), e.g. nach Verlauf vierer Jahre ― after the course of four years
• dative: vieren (literary, now used independently of a noun), e.g. der letzte von vieren ― the last of four

• vierte, vierzig
• vierfach, vierminütig, vierstündig, viertägig, vierwöchig, viermonatig, vierjährig

• vierzehn, vierhundert, viertausend
• Viereck, Vierklang, Vierflächner, Vierzeiler

• “vier” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “vier” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “vier” in Duden online
• vier on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

vier

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of viō

From Old Dutch viuwar, vier, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.

vier

1. four

• Dutch: vier
• Limburgish: veer
• Zealandic: vier

vier n

1. (Flemish, sometimes Brabant) Alternative form of vuur

• “viere (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “vier (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

vier

1. present tense of vie

From Middle High German vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar. Compare German vier, Dutch vier, English four.

• IPA^(key): /fiːɐ̯/

vier

1. four

• Hyphenation: vi‧er

vier

1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of vir

Inherited from Latin verrēs.

IPA^(key): /vjer/

vier m (plural vieri)

1. (un-castrated pig) boar
2. (male) wild boar

• mistreț

From vie (“vineyard”), or from Latin vīneārius.

• viiariu — archaic

IPA^(key): /viˈer/

vier m (plural vieri)

1. vintager
2. (rare) vine grower

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vier

1. genitive plural of viera

From Middle Dutch vier, variant of vuur, from Old Dutch fuir, from Proto-West Germanic *fuir, from Proto-Germanic *fōr, from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥.

vier n

1. fire

From Middle English ver (“squirrel fur”, rarely "weasel"), from Old French vair, from Latin varius (“variegated”).

• wyer, vierd

• IPA^(key): /viː/, /wiː/
• Homophones: vire, waare, were

vier

1. weasel

vier

1. Alternative form of vire (“fire”)

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 75

From Middle Dutch vier, from Old Dutch viuwar, vier, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.

vier

1. four

From Middle Dutch vier, variant of vuur.

vier n (plural )

1. fire