wether

Definition of wether

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

A castrated goat.

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noun

A castrated goat.
A castrated ram.

“I am a tainted Weather of the flocke, / Meeteſt for death, the weakeſt kinde of fruite”
(alt-of, archaic)Archaic spelling of weather.

“There was a great fyer in the chamber, the wether was colde, and I saw now and then a Bishop come out;”

verb

(transitive)To castrate a male sheep or goat.

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Etymology

From Middle English wether, wethir, wedyr, from Old English weþer (“a wether, ram”), from Proto-West Germanic *weþru, from Proto-Germanic *weþruz (“wether”), from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”). Cognates Cognate with Scots weddir,…

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From Middle English wether, wethir, wedyr, from Old English weþer (“a wether, ram”), from Proto-West Germanic *weþru, from Proto-Germanic *weþruz (“wether”), from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”). Cognates Cognate with Scots weddir, woddir, wadder (“wether”), Dutch weder, weer (“wether”), German Widder (“wether, ram”), Norwegian Bokmål vær (“ram”), Norwegian Nynorsk vêr (“ram”), Swedish vädur (“wether, ram”), Icelandic veður (“wether, ram”), Latin vitulus (“calf”).

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