vier

From vie +‎ -er.

vier (plural viers)

1. One who vies for something.
   • 1991, Diane Lynch Fraser, Playdancing (page 90)

     Evidently, there were two children vying for a third's attention. The two attention viers were engaged in a series of gymnastic feats on a small portable trampoline. Two girls were trying to outdo each other to impress the third child, a boy.

• Iver, Rive, iver, rive, vire

From Dutch vier, from Middle Dutch vier, from Old Dutch viuwar, vier, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.

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vier

1. four

From Middle High German vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr. Cognate with German vier, Dutch vier, English four, Icelandic fjórir.

• IPA^(key): /fiər/

vier

1. four

• Zvieri

• via, fiar (spelling)

• IPA^(key): /fiɐ̯/

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vier

1. four

From Middle High German vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

• IPA^(key): /fiə̯/

vier

1. (most dialects) four

• IPA^(key): /vir/, [viːr], [viər], [f-]

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• Hyphenation: vier
• Rhymes: -ir

From Middle Dutch vier, from Old Dutch viuwar, vier, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.

vier

1. four.

• Afrikaans: vier
• Berbice Creole Dutch: firi
• Jersey Dutch: vîr
• Negerhollands: vier, veer, fi
• Skepi Creole Dutch: firi
• → Trió: pirë

vier m (plural vieren, diminutive viertje n)

1. a sign for or representation of four
2. the value four, e.g. as a score
3. (uncountable) a group of four.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vier

1. first-person singular present indicative of vieren
2. imperative of vieren

From Middle High German vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres. Compare Dutch vier, English four, Danish fire, Swedish fyra.

• IPA^(key): /fiːr/, [fi(ː)ɐ̯]

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• Rhymes: -iːɐ̯

vier

1. (cardinal number) four (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 4; or describing a set with four elements)
   • 1682, Benignus Kybler, WunderSpiegl Oder Göttliche Wunderwerck. Dritter und letzter Theil, p. 144:

     Bey Ablauffung der fünfften Wochen/ erschine ihr die Himmel-Königin abermahlen/ vnd raichet ein Himmlisches Getranck dar/ welches sie mit allgebürender Ehrerbütigkeit angenommen vnd genossen/ zumahlen sich dermassen erhollet hat / daß ihre Stärcke vnnd Leibs-Kräften weit grösser dann zuvoren/ nit leicht auch von vieren Männern kundte überwunden werden.

     When the fifth week end / the heavenly queen appeared to her again / and gave her a heavenly drink / that she accepted with appropriate reverence and enjoyed / so that she recreated so much, / that her strength and health were much higher than before / and couldn't easily be overcome by four men.

Normally uninflected, but note the following:

• viere (now colloquial, used independently of a noun), e.g. Die Turmuhr schlug viere. ― The clock tower struck four.
• genitive: vierer (literary), e.g. nach Verlauf vierer Jahre ― after the course of four years
• dative: vieren (literary, now used independently of a noun), e.g. der letzte von vieren ― the last of four

• vierte, vierzig
• vierfach, vierminütig, vierstündig, viertägig, vierwöchig, viermonatig, vierjährig

• vierzehn, vierhundert, viertausend
• Viereck, Vierklang, Vierflächner, Vierzeiler

• “vier” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “vier” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “vier” in Duden online
• vier on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

vier

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of viō

From Old Dutch viuwar, vier, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.

vier

1. four

• Dutch: vier
• Limburgish: veer
• Zealandic: vier

vier n

1. (Flemish, sometimes Brabant) Alternative form of vuur

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

vier

1. present tense of vie

From Middle High German vier, from Old High German fior, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar. Compare German vier, Dutch vier, English four.

• IPA^(key): /fiːɐ̯/

vier

1. four

• Hyphenation: vi‧er

vier

1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of vir

From Latin verrēs.

IPA^(key): /vjer/

vier m (plural vieri)

1. (un-castrated pig) boar
2. (male) wild boar

• mistreț

From vie (“vineyard”), or from Latin vīneārius.

• viiariu (archaic)

IPA^(key): /viˈer/

vier m (plural vieri)

1. vintager
2. (rare) vine grower

• IPA^(key): [vi̯er]

vier

1. genitive plural of viera

From Middle Dutch vier, variant of vuur, from Old Dutch fuir, from Proto-West Germanic *fuir, from Proto-Germanic *fōr, from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥.

vier n

1. fire

From Middle English veir (“squirrel fur”, rarely "weasel"), from Old French vair, from Latin varius (“variegated”).

• wyer, vierd

vier

1. weasel

vier

1. Alternative form of vire (“fire”)

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 75

From Middle Dutch vier, from Old Dutch viuwar, vier, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres.

vier

1. four

From Middle Dutch vier, variant of vuur.

vier n (plural [please provide])

1. fire