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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wether

/ˈwɛðɚ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English

Syllables
wether
IPA
/ˈwɛðɚ/
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A castrated goat.

noun

A castrated ram.

verb

To castrate a male sheep or goat.

Transitive verb

noun

Archaic spelling of weather.

Archaic

Example Sentences

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, 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”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: *wet-, wether, weþer, *weþru, *weþruz

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˈwɛðɚ/
  • British English: /ˈwɛðə/

Usage

Inflected Forms

wethers (plural) wedder (alternative) wethers (present, singular) wethering (participle, present) wethered (participle, past) wethered (past)

Derived Forms

bellwether

Homonyms

weather whether (wine–whine merger)

Rhymes With

together whether weather leather altogether heather feather tether nether pleather mether untogether

Questions

How do you pronounce wether?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈwɛðɚ/.
What does wether mean?
A castrated goat.
Where does wether come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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