wether

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See also: weþer

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English wether, wethir, wedyr, from Old English weþer (“a wether, ram”), from Proto-West Germanic *weþru, from Proto-Germanic *weþruz (“wether”), from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”).

Cognates

Cognate with Scots weddir, woddir, wadder (“wether”), Dutch weder, weer (“wether”), German Widder (“wether, ram”), Norwegian Bokmål vær (“ram”), Norwegian Nynorsk vêr (“ram”), Swedish vädur (“wether, ram”), Icelandic veður (“wether, ram”), Latin vitulus (“calf”).

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Noun

wether (plural wethers)

  1. A castrated goat.
  2. A castrated ram.
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Verb

wether (third-person singular simple present wethers, present participle wethering, simple past and past participle wethered)

  1. (transitive) To castrate a male sheep or goat.
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Etymology 2

Noun

wether

  1. Archaic spelling of weather.
    • 1527, George Joye, The storie of my state after the bishop had receyued the pryours letters‎:
      There was a great fyer in the chamber, the wether was colde, and I saw now and then a Bishop come out;
      cited after Samuel Roffey Maitland, 1866, p. 8

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