wer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   historical: a man, or the monetary value assigned to a man's life under early Germanic law

   The victim's kin could accept payment of the wer instead of pursuing a feud.

2. 2
   verb

   eye dialect spelling of were

   If I wer you, I would leave before dark.

3. 3
   det

   Yorkshire dialect pronunciation spelling of our

   He would not remain in wer company.

The historical noun descends from Old English wer, 'man,' from Proto-Germanic *weraz; it survives visibly in werewolf and wergeld. The were and our senses are separate eye-dialect spellings based on regional pronunciation.

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