wert

(stressed)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɜːt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /wɝt/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

(unstressed)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wət/

wert

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of be

   Synonym: wast

   Why wert thou there?

   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, To A Skylark, (first two lines of ode),

     "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, ..."

2. (archaic) second-person singular simple past subjunctive of be

   Synonym: were

   If thou wert mine, I would be in heaven!

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 8:6:

     If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, ...

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 3:15:

     I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

• “wert”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “wert”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

• Trew, trew

• werth (obsolete)

From Middle High German wert, from Old High German werd, from Proto-Germanic *werþaz. See the English cognate worth for more.

• IPA^(key): /veːrt/, [veːɐ̯t], [vɛɐ̯t]; (southern also) /vɛrt/, [vɛɐ̯t], [vɛʁt]

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wert (strong nominative masculine singular werter, comparative werter, superlative am wertesten)

1. worth, worthy of [with accusative or (higher register) genitive ‘something’]

   Gold(es) wert sein ― to be worth gold/worth its weight in gold

   Das ist die Mühe nicht wert. ― That's not worth the effort.

   Sie fand es nicht der Mühe wert. ― She didn't find it worth the effort.

   Der Wein ist seinen Preis wert. ― The wine is worth its price.

   Er ist die ganze Aufmerksamkeit nicht wert, die er bekommt. ― He's not worthy of all the attention he gets.

2. (higher register) worthy of [with genitive ‘someone’]

   Synonym: würdig

   Das ist meiner nicht wert. ― That’s below my dignity.

3. (formal) dear

   Werte Gäste, ... ― Dear guests, ...

• In older usage, wert was generally construed with a genitive object. This is now restricted to elevated style or fixed expressions, for example: Wer den Pfennig nicht ehrt, ist des Talers nicht wert. — “Who doesn't honour the penny, isn't worthy of the dollar.” (An equivalent expression is “A penny saved is a penny earned”.)
• The genitive case is preferred when the object of wert is a person (or a group, organization, etc.). However, this usage is quite rare and würdig is more common instead.

• wertfrei
• wertlos

• Wert

• “wert” in Duden online
• “wert” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Old Dutch *wert, *wirt, from Proto-Germanic *werduz.

wert m

1. host
2. innkeeper

• wāert
• wēert

• Dutch: waard

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wert

1. inflection of werden:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   3. singular/plural imperative

• “wert (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “wert (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

wert

1. alternative form of wort (“plant”)

wert

1. alternative form of vert

wert

1. alternative form of vert

wert

1. alternative form of warte

Inherited from Old High German werd, from Proto-Germanic *werþaz.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈwɛrt/

wërt (adverb wërde)

1. worthy, valuable, noble
   • 13th c., Neidhart von Reuental, Meie dīn liechter schīn:

     Hôchgemuot, dar zuo fruot
     ist an jungem manne guot,
     dër vor schanden ist behuot
     und daȥ beste gërne tuot:
     dën begiuȥet sælden fluot,
     minnet wërdiu wîp.

     Smart and noble, happy and proud,
     That suits a young man,
     Who keeps himself from shame
     And the best likes to do:
     The happiness floods him in streams,
     the noble lady loves him.

wërt

1. value

• Cimbrian: bèart
• German: wert, Wert
  • → Polish: wart
  • → Ukrainian: вартий (vartyj)
• Hunsrik: Weert
• Luxembourgish: wäert
• Yiddish: ווערט (vert), ווערד (verd)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “wërt”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “wërt”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition

wert ?

1. descendence

• IPA^(key): /wert/, [werˠt]

wert f (late Kentish)

1. alternative form of wyrt

Strong i-stem:

Borrowed from German Wert.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛrt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrt
• Syllabification: wert

wert m inan

1. value

• wert in silling.org

From French verte.

• IPA^(key): /wɛrt/

wert

1. to be green