wier

wier (plural wiers)

1. Archaic form of weir.
   • 1819, James Dugdale, The New British Traveller: Or, Modern Panorama of England and Wales

     The wier of this fishery is very large, and consists of a dam, ten or twelve feet high […]

• Weir, Wire, weir, wire

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From Middle Dutch wier (“seaweed”), possibly descended through Old Dutch from Proto-Germanic, or was borrowed from Frisian. Cognate with dialectal English ware (“seaweed”), Old English war (“seaweed”).

wier n (plural wieren, diminutive wiertje n)

1. seaweed

Before the 18th century, the word was sometimes considered to be feminine.

• (seaweed): alg, alge, zeegras

• groenwieren, zeewier

• Afrikaans: wier

wier

1. (interrogative, archaic) whose (feminine, plural)
2. (relative, dated) whose (feminine, plural)

• wie, wiens

• wär

wier

1. first-person singular simple conditional of sinn
2. third-person singular simple conditional of sinn

wier

1. again

wier

1. real
2. true

• wierheid

• “wier (III)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011