wird

German

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vɪɐ̯t/
  • Audio(file)
  • Homophone: Wirt

Verb

wird

  1. Third-person singular present of werden.

Scots

Etymology

From Old English word (“word”), from Proto-Germanic *wurdą (“word”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (“word”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [wɪrd], [wʌrd]

Noun

wird (plural wirds)

  1. word
  2. utterance, remark
  3. the sound of one's voice, way of speaking

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • guid wirds (“children's prayers”)
  • horseman's wird (“a code word revealed on joining a horsemen's secret society”)
  • owerwird (“the chorus of poem or song”)
  • pit up a wird (“to say a prayer”)
  • speak a wird tae (“to admonish”)
  • sweir-wird (“swear-word”)
  • tryst-wird (“password”)

Verb

wird (third-person singular present wirds, present participle wirdin, past wirdt, past participle wirdt)

  1. to express oneself
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