vier
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]vier (plural viers)
- One who vies for something.
- 1991, Diane Lynch Fraser, Playdancing, page 90:
- Evidently, there were two children vying for a third's attention. The two attention viers were engaged in a series of gymnastic feats on a small portable trampoline. Two girls were trying to outdo each other to impress the third child, a boy.
Anagrams
[edit]Afrikaans
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Cardinal: vier Ordinal: vierde Ordinal abbreviation: 4de |
Etymology
[edit]From Dutch vier, from Middle Dutch vier, from Old Dutch viuwar, vier, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]vier
Alemannic German
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr. Cognate with German vier, Dutch vier, English four, Icelandic fjórir.
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]vier
Derived terms
[edit]Bavarian
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Cardinal: vier, viere |
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
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[edit]vier
Central Franconian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]vier
- (most dialects) four
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /vir/, [viːr], [viər], [f-]
Audio (Belgium): (file) Audio (Netherlands): (file) - Hyphenation: vier
- Rhymes: -ir
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Dutch vier, from Old Dutch viuwar, vier, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.
Numeral
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Cardinal: vier Ordinal: vierde |
vier
- four.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Afrikaans: vier
- Berbice Creole Dutch: firi
- Jersey Dutch: vîr
- Negerhollands: vier, veer, fi
- Skepi Creole Dutch: firi
- → Trió: pirë
Noun
[edit]vier m (plural vieren, diminutive viertje n)
- a sign for or representation of four
- De vier op zijn shirt was nauwelijks meer te zien. ― The four on his shirt was barely visible anymore.
- the value four, e.g. as a score
- Hij had veel onvoldoendes, drie vijven en een vier. ― He had many failing grades, three fives and one four.
- (uncountable) a group of four.
- Die vier zijn natuurlijk blij, maar laten we ook denken aan het verdriet van de vier die zijn afgewezen. ― Those four are of course happy, but let us also think of the sadness of the four who were rejected.
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]vier
- inflection of vieren:
Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]vier
- (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular future subjunctive of vir
German
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Cardinal: vier Ordinal: vierte Sequence adverb: viertens Ordinal abbreviation: 4. Adverbial: viermal Adverbial abbreviation: 4-mal Multiplier: vierfach Multiplier abbreviation: 4-fach Fractional: Viertel Polygon: Viereck Polygon abbreviation: 4-Eck Polygonal adjective: viereckig Polygonal adjective abbreviation: 4-eckig | ||
German Wikipedia article on 4 |
Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres. Compare Dutch vier, English four, Danish fire, Swedish fyra.
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]vier
- (cardinal number) four (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 4; or describing a set with four elements)
- 1682, Benignus Kybler, WunderSpiegl Oder Göttliche Wunderwerck. Dritter und letzter Theil, page 144:
- Bey Ablauffung der fünfften Wochen/ erschine ihr die Himmel-Königin abermahlen/ vnd raichet ein Himmlisches Getranck dar/ welches sie mit allgebürender Ehrerbütigkeit angenommen vnd genossen/ zumahlen sich dermassen erhollet hat / daß ihre Stärcke vnnd Leibs-Kräften weit grösser dann zuvoren/ nit leicht auch von vieren Männern kundte überwunden werden.
- When the fifth week end / the heavenly queen appeared to her again / and gave her a heavenly drink / that she accepted with appropriate reverence and enjoyed / so that she recreated so much, / that her strength and health were much higher than before / and couldn't easily be overcome by four men.
Declension
[edit]Normally uninflected, but note the following:
- viere (now colloquial, used independently of a noun), e.g. Die Turmuhr schlug viere. ― The clock tower struck four.
- genitive: vierer (literary), e.g. nach Verlauf vierer Jahre ― after the course of four years
- dative: vieren (literary, now used independently of a noun), e.g. der letzte von vieren ― the last of four
Coordinate terms
[edit]- 100: hundert, einhundert
- 103: tausend, eintausend
- 104: zehntausend (Myriade)
- 106: Million (tausendmaltausend, tausendtausend)
- 109: Milliarde
- 1012: Billion
- 1015: Billiarde
- 1018: Trillion
- 1021: Trilliarde
- 1024: Quadrillion
- 1027: Quadrilliarde
- 1030: Quintillion
- 1033: Quintilliarde
- 1036: Sextillion
- 1039: Sextilliarde
- 1042: Septillion
- 1045: Septilliarde
- 1048: Oktillion
- 1051: Oktilliarde
- 1054: Nonillion
- 1057: Nonilliarde
- 1060: Dezillion
- 1063: Dezilliarde
- 1066: Undezillion
- 1069: Undezilliarde
- 1072: Duodezillion
- 1075: Duodezilliarde
- 1078: Tredezillion
- 1081: Tredezilliarde
- 1084: Quattuordezillion
- 1087: Quattuordezilliarde
…
- 10100: Googol
…
- 10120: Vigintillion
- 10123: Vigintilliarde
…
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “vier” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “vier” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “vier” in Duden online
vier on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]vier
Middle Dutch
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Dutch viuwar, vier, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.
Numeral
[edit]vier
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]vier n
Further reading
[edit]- “viere (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “vier (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Verb
[edit]vier
Pennsylvania German
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Cardinal : vier Ordinal : viert | ||
Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar. Compare German vier, Dutch vier, English four.
Pronunciation
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[edit]vier
Portuguese
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- Hyphenation: vi‧er
Verb
[edit]vier
Romanian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vier m (plural vieri)
Declension
[edit]See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From vie (“vineyard”), or from Latin vīneārius.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vier m (plural vieri)
Declension
[edit]Slovak
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[edit]vier
West Flemish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch vier, variant of vuur, from Old Dutch fuir, from Proto-West Germanic *fuir, from Proto-Germanic *fōr, from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥.
Noun
[edit]vier n
Yola
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English ver (“squirrel fur”, rarely "weasel"), from Old French vair, from Latin varius (“variegated”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vier
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]vier
- Alternative form of vire (“fire”)
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 75
Zealandic
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Dutch vier, from Old Dutch viuwar, vier, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.
Numeral
[edit]vier
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle Dutch vier, variant of vuur.
Noun
[edit]vier n (plural [please provide])
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