wether

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɛðə/    美 /ˈwɛðɚ/|/ˈweðə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A castrated goat.
  2. Archaic spelling of weather. alt-of,archaic
    — There was a great fyer in the chamber, the wether was colde, and I saw now and then a Bishop come out;
  3. A castrated ram.
    — I am a tainted Weather of the flocke, / Meeteſt for death, the weakeſt kinde of fruite
动词 v.
  1. To castrate a male sheep or goat. transitive

词形变化

wethers plural wedder alternative wethers present,singular,third-person wethering participle,present wethered participle,past wethered past wedder alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
bellwether

词源

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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