wird
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɪɐ̯t/
Audio (file) - Homophone: Wirt
Verb
wird
- Third-person singular present of werden.
Scots
Etymology
From Old English word (“word”), from Proto-Germanic *wurdą (“word”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (“word”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [wɪrd], [wʌrd]
Noun
wird (plural wirds)
- word
- utterance, remark
- the sound of one's voice, way of speaking
Derived terms
Derived terms
- guid wirds (“children's prayers”)
- horseman's wird (“a code word revealed on joining a horsemen's secret society”)
- owerwird (“the chorus of poem or song”)
- pit up a wird (“to say a prayer”)
- speak a wird tae (“to admonish”)
- sweir-wird (“swear-word”)
- tryst-wird (“password”)
Verb
wird (third-person singular present wirds, present participle wirdin, past wirdt, past participle wirdt)
- to express oneself