weze
See also: wêze, węzę, and węże
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eːzə
Verb
weze
- (archaic) singular past subjunctive of wijzen
Norman
Alternative forms
- ouaîsé (Jersey)
- ouaîthé (Saint Ouen)
- ouésé (continental Normandy)
Etymology
From Old French oisel, from Late Latin aucellus m (“little bird”), a diminutive ultimately based on Latin avis f (“bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis.
Noun
weze m
- (Sark) bird
Saterland Frisian
Alternative forms
- weese
Etymology
From Old Frisian wesa, from Proto-West Germanic *wesan. Cognates include West Frisian wêze and Dutch wezen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈveːsə/
- Hyphenation: we‧ze
- Rhymes: -eːsə
Verb
weze
- (copulative) to be
- (auxiliary) Used to form the present continuous, together with a present participle.
- (auxiliary) Used to form the perfect tense of the passive voice, together with a past participle.
- (auxiliary) Used to form the perfect tense of the active voice of some verbs, together with a past participle.
- 2000, Marron C. Fort, transl., Dät Näie Tästamänt un do Psoolme in ju aasterlauwerfräiske Uurtoal fon dät Seelterlound, Fräislound, Butjoarlound, Aastfräislound un do Groninger Umelounde [The New Testament and the Psalms in the East Frisian language, native to Saterland, Friesland, Butjadingen, East Frisia and the Ommelanden of Groningen], →ISBN, Dät Evangelium ätter Matthäus 1:22:
- Dut aal is geskäin, dät dät uutkume skuul, wät die Here truch dän Profeet kweden häd;
- This all has happened, so that it would come true, what the Lord through the profet has said.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of weze (irregular)
| Grúundfoarme | weze | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | tou wezen | ||||||
| Present tense | Past tense | ||||||
| iek | bän | wie | sunt | iek | waas | wie | wieren |
| du | bääst | jie | sunt | du | wierst | jie | wieren |
| hie/ju/dät | is | jo | sunt | hie/ju/dät | waas | jo | wieren |
| Present participle | Imperative | Auxiliary | Past participle | ||||
| wezend | Singular | wäs | weze, häbe | wezen, weden, ween | |||
| Plural | wezet | ||||||
References
- Marron C. Fort (2015), “weze”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN