Wehr

== German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /veːɐ̯/ Homophone: wer Rhymes: -eːɐ̯ === Etymology 1 === From Middle High German were, from Old High German werī, from Proto-Germanic *warīniz, derived from *warjaną, whence German wehren. Cognate with Dutch weer, Swedish värn and Danish værn, but not with English war (see there for more). ==== Noun ==== Wehr f (genitive Wehr, plural Wehren) (archaic, except in compounds and idioms) resistance; defence; also in the sense of defenders; guard (informal, regional) ellipsis of Feuerwehr ===== Declension ===== ===== Hyponyms ===== ===== Derived terms ===== wehrhaft, wehrlos ===== Related terms ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle High German wer, from Old High German wer, from Proto-West Germanic *wari, from Proto-Germanic *warją (“mound, embankment, dam, weir”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to shut, bar, block, defend”). Cognate with German Low German Wehr, Dutch weer, English weir, Norwegian vær, Icelandic ver. ==== Noun ==== Wehr n (strong, genitive Wehres or Wehrs, plural Wehre) weir barrage ===== Declension ===== ==== References ==== Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Wehr#wb-2”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN === Further reading === “Wehr”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “Wehr” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Wehr” in Duden online Wehr on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de