wer
Old High German
noun
Definitions
- man
Etymology
Inherited from *wer (man) inherited from Proto-Germanic *weraz (man) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós (man, warrior, husband, hero, freeman).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wiHrós
Gloss
man, warrior, husband, hero, freeman
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
男, 夫, 士
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Warwick English
- lupus Latin
- vir Latin
- virtūtem Latin
- virum Latin
- wer German
- *kʷis Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷos Proto-Indo-European
- *wiHrós Proto-Indo-European
- hver Norwegian Bokmål
- hverdag Norwegian Bokmål
- *hwanǭ Proto-Germanic
- *hwarjaz Proto-Germanic
- *hwat Proto-Germanic
- *hwaz Proto-Germanic
- *hweraz Proto-Germanic
- *weraz Proto-Germanic
- varje Swedish
- kven Norwegian Nynorsk
- Wæringwic Old English
- hwa Old English
- hwā Old English
- wer Old English
- werleas Old English
- werlic Old English
- werwulf Old English
- Warwyk Middle English
- wer Middle English
- were Middle English
- hvar Old Norse
- hvat Old Norse
- hveim Old Norse
- hverr Old Norse
- verr Old Norse
- hver Danish
- hvilken Danish
- hver Icelandic
- ver Icelandic
- بیر Persian
- hvør Faroese
- ver- Faroese
- wer Middle High German
- 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂 Gothic
- 𐍈𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰 Gothic
- 𐍈𐌰𐍃 Gothic
- *hwaʀ gmw-pro
- *warjan gmw-pro
- *wer gmw-pro
- *werawulf gmw-pro
- wie Old Dutch
- *wiros Proto-Celtic
- ber Cimbrian
- bèar Cimbrian
- *wiHrás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *wīrás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *áryas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- hwe Old Saxon
- hwē Old Saxon
- wer Old Saxon
- wër Alemannic German
- hvor Westrobothnian
- *wiros Proto-Italic
- *werwolf Frankish
- hwa Old Frisian
- hwā Old Frisian
- *wī́ˀras Proto-Balto-Slavic
- wer Hunsrik
- hwa Old Danish
- vīrs Samogitian