weir

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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /wɪə̯/
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• General-American: /wɪɹ/
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• Scotland: /wiːɹ/
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• New-Zealand: /wiə/
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• /wɛː/ East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
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• rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)
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• homophone: Wear
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• homophone: we're
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• homophone: ware
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• homophone: wear (both cheer–chair merger)
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* As an English and Scottish surname, from the noun weir. Compare Wear, Ware. * Sometimes also a French surname, perhaps a version of Norman de la Were (“of the war”), see Warr. There is also the placename Wierre-au-Bois in Pas-de-Calais. * As an Irish surname, shortened and Anglicized from Mac an Mhaoir (“son of the steward”), see McNair. Also sometimes Anglicized from erroneous translations of names such as Ó Corra, Ó Comhraidhe, see Corr and Curry.

From Middle English were, from Old English wer, from werian (“to dam up”), from Proto-West Germanic *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover”); Cognate with Old Norse ver (“station for fishing”), Sanskrit वृणोति (vṛṇóti). Related to warranty.

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: هَدَّار (haddār) — adjustable dam
• Bulgarian: прели́вник (prelívnik) — adjustable dam
• Catalan: resclosa — adjustable dam
• Czech: jez — adjustable dam
• Danish: overløb — adjustable dam
• Dutch: weer — adjustable dam
• Dutch: stuw — adjustable dam
• Dutch: overlaat — adjustable dam
• Esperanto: vejro — adjustable dam
• Finnish: säännöstelypato — adjustable dam
• Finnish: ylivuotopato — adjustable dam
• French: seuil — adjustable dam
• Galician: comporta — adjustable dam
• German: Wehr — adjustable dam
• Gujarati: આડબંધ (āḍabandh) — adjustable dam
• Hawaiian: pākolokolo — adjustable dam
• Irish: cora — adjustable dam
• Italian: stramazzo — adjustable dam
• Italian: cateratta — adjustable dam
• Japanese: 堰 (seki) — adjustable dam
• Macedonian: каскадна брана (kaskadna brana) — adjustable dam
• Manx: stangey — adjustable dam
• Māori: ahuriri — adjustable dam
• Mi'kmaq: nisaqan — adjustable dam
• Norwegian Bokmål: overløp — adjustable dam
• Norwegian Bokmål: demning — adjustable dam
• Norwegian Nynorsk: overløp — adjustable dam
• Norwegian Nynorsk: overlaup — adjustable dam
• Persian: ورغ (varġ) — adjustable dam
• Polish: jaz — adjustable dam
• Portuguese: comporta — adjustable dam
• Russian: водосли́в (vodoslív) — adjustable dam
• Scottish Gaelic: cairidh — adjustable dam
• Scottish Gaelic: eileach — adjustable dam
• Slovak: hať — adjustable dam
• Old Slovak: jaz — adjustable dam
• Spanish: compuerta — adjustable dam
• Spanish: vertedero — adjustable dam
• Spanish: aliviadero — adjustable dam
• Swedish: regleringsdamm — adjustable dam
• Tày: ben — adjustable dam
• Thai: ฝาย (fǎai) — adjustable dam
• Vietnamese: đăng — adjustable dam
• Welsh: cored — adjustable dam
• Bulgarian: яз (jaz) — fence to catch fish
• Naskapi: ᓄᑕᒧᐛᓐ (nutamuwaan) — fence to catch fish
• Dutch: visweer — fence to catch fish
• Estonian: kalatõke — fence to catch fish
• Finnish: kalapato — fence to catch fish
• French: écrille — fence to catch fish
• French: bordigue — fence to catch fish
• Galician: caneiro — fence to catch fish
• Galician: canal — fence to catch fish
• German: Fischwehr — fence to catch fish
• Japanese: 梁漁 (yanaryou) — fence to catch fish
• Macedonian: далјан (daljan) — fence to catch fish
• Māori: ahuriri — fence to catch fish
• Māori: rauiri — fence to catch fish
• Māori: rauwiri — fence to catch fish
• Polish: jaz — fence to catch fish
• Portuguese: caniçado — fence to catch fish
• Scottish Gaelic: cairidh — fence to catch fish
• Scottish Gaelic: eileach — fence to catch fish
• Spanish: corral de pesca — fence to catch fish
• Spanish: represa pesquera — fence to catch fish
• Spanish: pesquera — fence to catch fish
• Unami: ahkwënikàn — fence to catch fish
• Welsh: cored — fence to catch fish