ʷerの英語

別の表記

• were

名詞

wer (複数形 wers)

1. (obsolete or historical) A man; a male; a husband
   • 1862, E. William Robertson, Scotland Under Her Early Kings, page 137:

     […] the character of a horseman was inseparable connected with the knight—the military attendant of the baron, who was himself nothing more than the Wer, or Man, of the king—even the armiger, […]

   • 1864, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England [...] from Brit. mus. ms. Cotton. Vitellius C. III, page 205:

     Further is this wort of two kinds, wer and wife, or male and female. The wer, or male, hath white blossoms, and the wife, or female, hath red or brown; either is beneficial and wonderlike, and they have on them wondrous virtue.

2. (obsolete or historical) A fine for slaying a man; wergeld.
   • 1876, Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law, page 144:

     Under the system of money compensation, the kindred of the slain must demand payment of the wer, or prosecute the feud. They had the right to the wer when paid, and must by oath release the slayer and his kindred from the feud.

   • 1895, Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland, “Inheritance”, in The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: At the University Press; Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, & Company, →OCLC, § 1 (Antiquities), page 239:

     It was so in the England of Alfred's day; the maternal kinsfolk paid a third of the wer. The Leges Henrici, which about such a matter will not be inventing new rules, tell us that the paternal kinsfolk pay and receive two-thirds, the maternal kinsfolk one-third of the wer; and this is borne out by other evidence.

関連する語

動詞

wer

1. Eye dialect spelling of were.

アナグラム

• ERW, Rew, erw, rew

別の表記

• wær

発音

• IPA^(key): /wer/

語源 1

From Proto-West Germanic *wer, from Proto-Germanic *weraz.

Germanic cognates include Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old High German wer, Old Norse verr, Gothic �������� (wair). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin vir, Sanskrit वीर (vīrà), Old Irish fer, Lithuanian výras.

名詞

wer m

1. man
2. male
   • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

     Ǣġþer is mann ġe wer ġe wīf.

     A person is either a male or a female.

3. husband
4. (poetic) hero, warrior
5. (in compounds) civil

   werrēaf ― civil dress, civil clothing

   werþēod ― people, nation

語形変化

同意語

• (man): beorn (poetic), guma (poetic), hæleþ, mann (まれに または non-literary), mæċġ, rinc (poetic), seċġ (poetic)

反意語

• wif (with respect to sex)

派生語

派生した語

• Middle English: wer
  • English: wer, were

語源 2

From werian.

名詞

wer m (nominative 複数形 weras)

1. weir

派生した語

• Middle English: were
  • English: weir

語源

From Proto-Germanic *weraz (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós (“freeman”). Akin to 古期英語 wer (“man”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈwer/

接頭辞

wer-

1. pertaining to man, warrior-

   werborg "a pledge to satisfy a wergild"

2. human, half-human

   werwulf "werewolf"

3. civil

   werrēaf "civil dress, civil clothing"

   werþēod "people, folk, nation"