wether

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*wet-“year”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*weþruz“wether”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*weþru
4. Old English · inherited fromweþer“a wether, ram”
5. Middle English · inherited fromwether
6. English todaywether

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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