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wird

German

Verb

wird

Third-person singular present of werden.

Scots

Etymology

From Old English word ‎(“word, speech, sentence, statement, command, order, subject of talk, story, news, report, fame, promise, verb”), from Proto-Germanic *wurdą ‎(“word”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo- ‎(“word”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [wɪrd], [wʌrd]

Noun

wird ‎(plural wirds)

word
utterance, remark
the sound of one's voice, way of speaking

Derived terms

guid wirds ‎(“children's prayers”)
horseman's wird ‎(“a code word revealed on joining a horsemen's secret society”)
owerwird ‎(“the chorus of poem or song”)
pit up a wird ‎(“to say a prayer”)

speak a wird tae ‎(“to admonish”)
sweir-wird ‎(“swear-word”)
tryst-wird ‎(“password”)

Verb

wird ‎(third-person singular present wirds, present participle wirdin, past wirdt, past participle wirdt)

to express oneself

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wird

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