wiet

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vit/

Verb

wiet

  1. (Cape Afrikaans) alternative form of weet

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German wīt, from Old High German (*)wīd, northern variant of wīt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋiːt/

Adjective

wiet (masculine wijje or wiede, feminine wie or wiet, comparative wijjer or wieder, superlative et wietste)

  1. (westernmost and northernmost Ripuarian) far; wide; distant

Usage notes

  • The forms with loss of -d- are western (around Aachen), the others are northern (around Düsseldorf).

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English weed (marijuana), from Middle English weed, from Old English wēod (weed), from Proto-West Germanic *weud. Doublet of wied (unwanted plant).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋit/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: wiet
  • Rhymes: -it
  • Homophones: wied, wiedt

Noun

wiet m (uncountable)

  1. weed, marijuana
    Synonyms: cannabis, hasj, marihuana, hennep

Derived terms

Anagrams

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt. Cognates include German weiß and West Frisian wyt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vit/
  • Hyphenation: wiet
  • Rhymes: -it

Adjective

wiet (masculine wieten, feminine, plural or definite wiete, comparative wieter, superlative wietst)

  1. white

References

  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “wiet”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian wēt, from Proto-West Germanic *wāt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /viə̯t/

Adjective

wiet

  1. wet

Inflection

Inflection of wiet
uninflected wiet
inflected wiete
comparative wieter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial wiet wieter it wietst
it wietste
indefinite c. sing. wiete wietere wietste
n. sing. wiet wieter wietste
plural wiete wietere wietste
definite wiete wietere wietste
partitive wiets wieters

Further reading

  • wiet (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011