weze

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːzə

Verb

weze

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of wijzen

Norman

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Alternative forms

• ouaîsé (Jersey)
• ouaîthé (Saint Ouen)
• ouésé (continental Normandy)

Etymology

From Old French oisel, from Late Latin aucellus m (“little bird”), a diminutive ultimately based on Latin avis f (“bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis.

Noun

weze m

1. (Sark) bird

Saterland Frisian

Alternative forms

• weese

Etymology

From Old Frisian wesa, from Proto-West Germanic *wesan. Cognates include West Frisian wêze and Dutch wezen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈveːsə/
• Hyphenation: we‧ze
• Rhymes: -eːsə

Verb

weze

1. (copulative) to be
2. (auxiliary) Used to form the present continuous, together with a present participle.
3. (auxiliary) Used to form the perfect tense of the passive voice, together with a past participle.
4. (auxiliary) Used to form the perfect tense of the active voice of some verbs, together with a past participle.
   • 2000, Marron C. Fort, transl., Dät Näie Tästamänt un do Psoolme in ju aasterlauwerfräiske Uurtoal fon dät Seelterlound, Fräislound, Butjoarlound, Aastfräislound un do Groninger Umelounde [The New Testament and the Psalms in the East Frisian language, native to Saterland, Friesland, Butjadingen, East Frisia and the Ommelanden of Groningen], →ISBN, Dät Evangelium ätter Matthäus 1:22:

     Dut aal is geskäin, dät dät uutkume skuul, wät die Here truch dän Profeet kweden häd;

     This all has happened, so that it would come true, what the Lord through the profet has said.

Conjugation

References

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “weze”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN