wer

• were

From Middle English wer, from Old English wer (“a male being, man, husband, hero”), from Proto-Germanic *weraz (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós (“man, freeman”). Cognate with Middle High German wër (“man”), Swedish värbror (“brother-in-law”), Norwegian verfader (“father-in-law”), Latin vir (“man, husband”).

wer (plural wers)

1. (obsolete) A man.
2. (obsolete) Wergeld.

• werewolf
• wergeld
• world

• Rew, erw, rew

wer

1. Soft mutation of gwer.

From Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis. Related to wo.

• IPA^(key): /veːɐ̯/, /vɛɐ̯/

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• Homophone: Wehr
• Rhymes: -eːɐ̯

wer

1. (interrogative) who (what person or people)

   Wer hat das gesagt? – Who said that?

2. (interrogative, colloquial) what, which (one) (see usage notes)
3. (relative) whoever, he who, someone who, the person who, anyone who (whatever person or persons)

   Wer eine Frage hat, kann sich jetzt melden.

   Whoever has a question, put up their hands now.

4. (indefinite, colloquial) somebody, someone (some unspecified person)

   Da ist wer an der Tür. – There's somebody at the door.

5. (indefinite, colloquial) anybody, anyone (any one out of an indefinite number of persons)

• (what): In colloquial German, wer and its forms may be used in reference to things. This is often done when asking about a noun whose gender one knows to be masculine or feminine. For example: Kannst du mir mal den Dings rübergeben? – Wen? (“Could you pass me the thingamabob?” – “Pass what?”) In this case, the interrogative mirrors the gender of the noun one asks about.
• (someone): The colloquial wer meaning “someone” cannot usually be the first word in a main clause, because it could be misinterpreted as an interrogative in this position. The only exception is when it is followed by a nominalized adjective:

  Wer Neues ist in die Mannschaft gekommen. – Someone new joined the team.

• N: wer
• G: wessen
• D: wem
• A: wen

• (indefinite, colloquial): jemand, einer

• irgendwer
• wer da
• Werdaruf
• Werfall
• Wemfall
• Wenfall

From Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛɐ̯/

wer

1. (interrogative) who

   Wer kommd dart?

   Who goes there?

   Wer sihst-du?

   Who do you see?

• wem

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

wer

1. so

wer

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 123

wer

1. egg
2. testicle
3. star

From Old English wer, from Proto-Germanic *weraz, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós; compare Old Norse verr, Latin vir, Old Prussian wijrs, Sanskrit वीर (vīra).

• IPA^(key): /wɛr/

wer (plural wers)

1. a man, a husband

• werwolf
• world

• English: wer, were

From Old English wǣre.

wer

1. Alternative form of were

From Late Old English werre, wyrre (“war”).

wer

1. Alternative form of werre (“war”)

wer

1. water

• Oceanic linguistics, volumes 20 à 21, University Press of Hawaii, page 129, 1981

• ƿer, wær

• IPA^(key): /wer/

From Proto-Germanic *weraz, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós (“freeman”). Germanic cognates include Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old High German wer, Old Norse verr, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂 (wair). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Latin vir, Sanskrit वीर (vīrá), Old Irish fer, Welsh gŵr), Lithuanian výras, and Latvian vīrs (“husband; man”) and vīrietis (“man”).

wer m

1. man
2. husband
3. (poetic) hero

• Middle English: wer
  • English: wer

From werian.

wer m (nominative plural weras)

1. weir

From Proto-Germanic *weraz, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós. Cognate with Old English wer and Old Norse verr.

wer m

1. man

• weralt
• werwulf

From Proto-Germanic *warją

wer n

1. dam, weir

• German: Wehr
• Italian: gora

From Proto-Germanic *weraz, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós. Cognate with Old English wer and Old Norse verr.

wer m

1. man
2. hero

• werold
• werwulf

• warwulf
• werld

wer

1. water

• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

wer

1. hatred, enmity