witcher

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• US: /ˈwɪt͡ʃɚ/
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• rhymes with -ɪtʃə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: W IH1 CH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Contraction of with + your.

From witch + -er, from the popular belief that dowsing was a supernatural act.

From witch + -er, a male equivalent of witch using the -er suffix as masculine, as in widower vs. widow, a calque of Polish wiedźmin. Possibly influenced by witchery. The Polish word was coined in 1986 by author Andrzej Sapkowski as a male equivalent of wiedźma (“witch”) for his The Witcher book series and media franchise. The English calque witcher was popularized by the series' English translation.

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: вя́дзьмар (vjádzʹmar) — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• Bulgarian: ве́щер (véšter) — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• Czech: zaklínač — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• Dutch: hekser — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• Estonian: nõidur — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• Finnish: noituri — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• French: sorceleur — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• German: Hexer — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• Hungarian: vaják — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• Italian: strigo — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• Latvian: raganis — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• Lithuanian: raganius — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• Polish: wiedźmin — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• Portuguese: bruxo — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• Russian: ведьма́к (vedʹmák) — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• Slovak: zaklínač — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• Slovene: veščec — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• Spanish: brujo — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• Swedish: häxkarl — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary
• Ukrainian: відьма́к (vidʹmák) — human who has undergone a controlled mutation to be able to kill monsters as a mercenary