English Explanatory Dictionary

wether

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A castrated goat.
  2. A castrated ram.
verb
  1. To castrate a male sheep or goat.
noun
  1. Archaic spelling of weather.

Pronunciation

/ˈwɛðɚ/ /ˈwɛðə/ en-us-whether.ogg /ˈweðə/ /ˈwɛðəɾ/

Word forms

wether wethers wedder wethering wethered

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”).

Derived words

bellwether
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