Meanings
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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.
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verb
eye dialect spelling of were
If I wer you, I would leave before dark.
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3
det
Yorkshire dialect pronunciation spelling of our
He would not remain in wer company.
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Etymology
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.