thwerh
See also: ðwerh
Old Saxon
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *þwerh (“against, contrary”). Cognate with Old English þweorh and Dutch dwars.
Adjective
thwerh
Descendants
- Middle Low German: dwer, dwers, queer
- Low German: dweer, dwars, quars; (> verquars)
- → German: verquast
- → Middle English: dwere, dwire
- → Scots: queer
- → English: queer, qwer (Bermuda)
- → Azerbaijani: kuir
- → Danish: queer
- → Esperanto: kvira
- → French: queer
- → Georgian: ქვიარი (kviari)
- → German: queer, Queer
- → Hebrew: קוויר
- → Hungarian: queer
- → Latvian: queer, kvīrs
- → Japanese: クィア (kuia)
- → Polish: queer
- → Portuguese: queer, cuir, cuír
- → Russian: квир (kvir)
- → Serbo-Croatian: queer, kvir, квир
- → Slovene: kwir
- → Spanish: queer, cuir
- → Swedish: queer
- → Tamil: குயர் (kuyar)
- → Turkish: queer, kuir
- → Ukrainian: квір (kvir)
- → Yiddish: קוויר (kvir)
- → English: queer, qwer (Bermuda)
- Low German: dweer, dwars, quars; (> verquars)