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Wether vs Aether - What's the difference?

wether | aether |

As a noun wether

is a castrated buck goat.

As a verb wether

is to castrate a male sheep or goat.

As a proper noun aether is

(greek mythology) one of the greek primordial deities, who was the personification of the upper air of the gods his parents of erebus and nyx, and his sister-wife is hemera/dies.

wether

English

Alternative forms

* (dialectal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A castrated buck goat.
  • A castrated ram.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1527 , author=George Joye , title= The storie of my state after the bishop had receyued the pryours letters , chapter= citation , isbn= , page= , passage=There was a great fyer in the chamber, the wether was colde, and I saw now and then a Bishop come out;}} (cited after Samuel Roffey Maitland, 1866, p. 8)

    Derived terms

    * bellwether

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To castrate a male sheep or goat.

    • aether

    English

    (wikipedia aether)

    Noun

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "aether")

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