watter

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English Watt

English watt

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

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Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English watter

From watt + -er.

Noun

watter (plural watters)

1. (in combination) Something that uses the specified amount of watts.
   • 1940 November 15, Consumers’ Guide, volume VII, number 4, page 13, column 3:

     The original cost of the 100-watter is approximately 15 cents, while the 2 60-watters will cost about 26 cents, and the 6 25-watters will cost about 60 cents. That’s one saving. To operate the 100-watter for 1,000 hours in a community where electricity costs 4 cents a kilowatt hour would cost $4.00. The cost of operating the 2 60-watters would be $5.00, while the cost of operating the 6 25-watters would be $6.00.

   • 1950 October, Popular Science, page 225, column 2:

     The small, mushroom-shaped bulb is a new 300-watter recently put on the market by Westinghouse for about $1.25.

   • 1998, Morton Richard Schroeder, Texas Signs On: The Early Days of Radio and Television, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 47:

     In 1927 Bridge built station KTAP, another 10-watter on 1140 kilocycles.

   • 2010, Phil Sutcliffe, AC/DC: High-Voltage Rock ’n’ Roll: The Ultimate Illustrated History, Voyageur Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 23, column 1:

     Malcolm’s tighter, punchier rhythm tone is consistent with the use of any of these big 100-watters (a Marshall Super Bass would be particularly bold in this department), and this was clearly another key ingredient—partnered with his Filter’Tron-loaded Gretsch—in the unparalleled chunk of the AC/DC rhythm assault. While Angus also often records through the 100-watters, he has been known to use any of a range of several JTM45s, a JTM50, and a later JMP50 in the studio (the former with KT66s, the latter two amps with EL34s).

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• waffer (obsolete)

Etymology

Contraction of wat vir, from Dutch wat voor (“what a, what kind of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.tər/

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Determiner

watter

1. what; which

   Watter boeke lees jy?

   What books do you read?

   Watter huis het hulle gekoop?

   Which house did they buy?

Alemannic German

Noun

watter n

1. (Rimella and Campello Monti) alternative form of Wätter (“weather”)

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɑtər/, /wɑʔər/, /waʔər/
• (Southern Scots) IPA^(key): /wetər/

Etymology 1

From Middle English water, from Old English wæter, from Proto-West Germanic *watar, from Proto-Germanic *watōr, from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥.

Cognates

Cognate with English water, North Frisian weeter (“water”), Saterland Frisian Woater (“water”), West Frisian wetter (“water”), Dutch water (“water”), Low German Water (“water”), German Wasser, Norwegian Bokmål vann (“water”), Swedish vatten (“water”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic vatn (“water”), Old Irish coin fodorne (“otters”, literally “water-dogs”), Latin unda (“wave”), Lithuanian vanduõ (“water”), Russian вода́ (vodá, “water”), Albanian ujë (“water”), Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”), Armenian գետ (get, “river”), Sanskrit उदन् (udán, “wave, water”), Hittite 𒉿𒀀𒋻 (wa-a-tar).

Noun

watter (countable and uncountable, plural watters)

1. water

   Can A hae a gless o watter, please?

   May I have a glass of water, please?

2. A river or large stream

   A went on doon the watter.

   I continued on down the river.

Etymology 2

From Old English wæterian, from Proto-Germanic *watrōną, *watrijaną, from *watōr (“water”), from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ (“water”).

Cognates

Cognate with English water, Saterland Frisian woaterje (“to water”), West Frisian wetterje (“to water”), Dutch wateren (“to water”), German Low German watern (“to water”), German wässern (“to water”), Danish vande (“to water”), Swedish vattna (“to water”), Icelandic vatna (“to water”).

Verb

watter (third-person singular simple present watters, present participle watterin, simple past and past participle wattert)

1. water

   A'm gaunae watter thae flouers.

   I'm going to water those flowers.

References

“watter”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.