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wether¹

  • /ˈwɛðɚ/ US
  • /ˈwɛðə/ UK
  • /ˈweðə/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˈwɛðəɾ/ Scotland

Sounds like weather, whether (wine–whine merger) · Rhymes with -ɛðə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English wether, wethir, wedyr, from Old English weþer (“a wether, ram”), from Proto-West Germanic *weþru, from Proto-Germanic *weþruz (“wether”), from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”).

Cognates

Cognate with Scots weddir, woddir, wadder (“wether”), Dutch weder, weer (“wether”), German Widder (“wether, ram”), Norwegian Bokmål vær (“ram”), Norwegian Nynorsk vêr (“ram”), Swedish vädur (“wether, ram”), Icelandic veður (“wether, ram”), Latin vitulus (“calf”).

noun wethers · wedder

  1. A castrated goat.
  2. A castrated ram. I am a tainted Weather of the flocke, / Meeteſt for death, the weakeſt kinde of fruite

verb wethers · wethering · wethered · wedder

  1. transitive To castrate a male sheep or goat.

wether²

  • /ˈwɛðɚ/ US
  • /ˈwɛðə/ UK
  • /ˈweðə/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˈwɛðəɾ/ Scotland

Sounds like weather, whether (wine–whine merger) · Rhymes with -ɛðə(ɹ)

noun

  1. archaic Archaic spelling of weather There was a great fyer in the chamber, the wether was colde, and I saw now and then a Bishop come out;

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noun castrated goat

Españolcastrón
中文駒驢 /驹驴 jūlǘ, 羯羊 jiéyáng
Portuguêscastrão
DeutschMönch, kastrierter Ziegenbock

noun castrated ram

Españolcarnero castrado, castrón
Portuguêscarneiro castrado
DeutschHammel, Schöps
Italianomontone
Românăbatal
Русскийвалу́х valúx

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@misc{wether_2026,
  title = {wether},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wether},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}