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English
Etymology
wet + -er
Pronunciation
Adjective
wetter
- comparative form of wet: more wet.
Noun
wetter (plural wetters)
- Agent noun of wet: someone who wets something as part of some process.
- A wetting agent or surfactant.
- A bedwetter.
- (MLE, slang) A knife which is apt to do wettings (stabbings).
2019 September 11, Yanko (lyrics and music), “Next Up”, in #ACGK, 1:49:Anywhere, anytime, I'll get him, if he's in love; I'll corn his wedding
He backed his wetter, I backed my wetter but who really held that wetting?
Derived terms
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle High German weter, from Old High German wetar, from Proto-Germanic *wedrą (“weather”).
Noun
wetter n
- (Issime) rain
References
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
wetter
- inflection of wett:
- strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- strong genitive/dative feminine singular
- strong genitive plural
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian weter, from Proto-West Germanic *watar, from Proto-Germanic *watōr, from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥. Cognates include Mooring North Frisian wååder, Sylt North Frisian Weeter, Saterland Frisian Woater and Föhr-Amrum North Frisian weeder.
Pronunciation
Noun
wetter n (plural wetters, diminutive wetterke)
- water
Derived terms
Further reading
- “wetter”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011