wether

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛðə(r)
• Homophones: weather, whether (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

wether (plural wethers)

1. A castrated buck goat.
2. A castrated ram.
3. Archaic spelling of weather.
   • 1527, George Joye, The storie of my state after the bishop had receyued the pryours letters^[1]:

     There was a great fyer in the chamber, the wether was colde, and I saw now and then a Bishop come out;

     (cited after Samuel Roffey Maitland, 1866, p. 8)

Derived terms

• bellwether

Translations

castrated buck goat

Croatian: brav (hr) m. Danish: bede (da) c. Dutch: weer (nl) m. Esperanto: kastrita (eo) virkapro (eo) Finnish: salvupukki (fi)

German: Mönch (de) m., kastrierter (de) Ziegenbock (de) m. Irish: molt (ga) m. Old Irish: molt m. Spanish: please add this translation if you can Swedish: hammel (sv), kastrerad bagge (sv) Volapük: hokapar (vo) Welsh: mollt (cy) m.

castrated ram

Czech: skopec (cs) m. Danish: bede (da) c. Dutch: hamel (nl) m. Esperanto: kastrita (eo) virŝafo (eo) Faroese: geldingur (fo) m. Finnish: oinas (fi)

German: Hammel (de) m., Schöps (de) m. Hungarian: ürü (hu) Latin: vervex (la) Russian: валух (ru) (valúkh) m. Spanish: please add this translation if you can Volapük: hojip (vo)

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Lithuanian: skapas m.

Verb

wether (third-person singular simple present wethers, present participle wethering, simple past and past participle wethered)

1. (transitive) To castrate a male sheep or goat.

Translations

to castrate a male sheep or goat

Finnish: kuohita (fi), salvaa (fi)