Wätter

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• Wetter, wetter, watter

Etymology

From Middle High German wëter, from Old High German wëtar, from Proto-Germanic *wedrą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁dʰrom, from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow; wind”) +‎ *-dʰrom (instrument noun–deriving suffix). Compare German Wetter, German Low German Weder, Luxembourgish Wieder, Dutch weer, English weather, Danish vejr.

Noun

Wätter n (plural Wätter)

1. weather

Further reading

• “Wätter”, in Wörterbuch Berndeutsch-Deutsch (in German), berndeutsch.ch, 1999–2026
• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien