wird
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German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]wird
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]wird
- Alternative form of werde
Scots
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle Scots word, from Middle English word, from Old English word (“word”), from Proto-Germanic *wurdą (“word”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (“word”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]wird (plural wirds)
- A word {gloss|separable linguistic unit}}
- An utterance or remark.
- 1983, William Lorimer, transl., The New Testament in Scots, Edinburgh: Canongate, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, Matthew 1:22-23, page 3:
- Aa this happent at the wurd spokken bi the Lord throu the prophet micht be fulfilled: Behaud, the virgin will bouk an beir a son, an they will caa his name Immanuel— that is, "God with us".
- All of this happened so the statement made by the Lord through the prophet could be fulfilled: "Look, the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they'll call him Immanuel", which means "God with us".
- (Religion) The Logos (Jesus Christ)
- 1983, William Lorimer, transl., The New Testament in Scots, Edinburgh: Canongate, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, Matthew 1:22-23, page 3:
- In the beginning o aa things the Wurd wis there ense, an the Wurd bade wi God, an the Wurd wis God.
- At the beginning of everything the Word was there, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- The sound of one's voice; a way of speaking
Derived terms
[edit]- guid wirds (“children's prayers”)
- horseman's wird (“a code word revealed on joining a horsemen's secret society”)
- owerwird (“the chorus of poem or song”)
- pit up a wird (“to say a prayer”)
- speak a wird tae (“to admonish”)
- sweir-wird (“swear-word”)
- tryst-wird (“password”)
Verb
[edit]wird (third-person singular simple present wirds, present participle wirdin, simple past wirdt, past participle wirdt)
- to express oneself
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