Luxembourgish

Noun

Wier n ‎(plural Wierer)

1. weir
2. barrage

English

Noun

wier ‎(plural wiers)

1. Archaic form of weir.
   • 1819, James Dugdale, The New British Traveller: Or, Modern Panorama of England and Wales

     The wier of this fishery is very large, and consists of a dam, ten or twelve feet high […]

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wier ‎(“seaweed”), possibly descended through Old Dutch from Proto-Germanic, or was borrowed from Frisian. Cognate with dialectal English ware ‎(“seaweed”), Old English war ‎(“seaweed”).

Noun

wier n ‎(plural wieren, diminutive wiertje n)

1. seaweed

Usage notes

Before the 18th century, the word was sometimes considered to be feminine.

Synonyms

• (seaweed): alg, alge, zeegras

Derived terms

• groenwieren, zeewier

Descendants

• Afrikaans: wier

Etymology 2

Pronoun

wier

1. (interrogative, archaic) whose (feminine, plural)
2. (relative, dated) whose (feminine, plural)

Related terms

• wie, wiens

Luxembourgish

Verb

wier

1. first-person singular simple conditional of sinn
2. third-person singular simple conditional of sinn

Saterland Frisian

Adverb

wier

1. again

West Frisian

Adjective

wier ‎(inflected wier, comparative wierer, superlative wierest)

1. real
2. true

Derived terms

• wierheid