wether

n. 阉羊

发音

US /ˈwɛðɚ/
UK /ˈwɛðə/

词形变化

wethers 复数 wethered wethering wethers 三单 wethering 现在分词 wethered 过去式 wethered 过去分词

别名

wedder

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A castrated goat.

  2. 2.

    A castrated ram.

  3. 1.

    Archaic spelling of weather.

    古体
v.
  1. 1.

    To castrate a male sheep or goat.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

sheep

下位词 1

bellwether

词源

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”).

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