Weiher

Concepts

pond

lake

see

👀

swamp

fish-tank

open water

bog

live-box

fish preserve

Synonyms

Teich

Tümpel

See

Moor

seichter

Sumpf

Wasserbecken

Reservoir

morastiger Teich

Fischbehälter

Bassin

kleiner Fischteich

Becken

Bruch

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

weier

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈvaɪ̯ər/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: wīher

Inherited from Old High German: wīwāri

In summary

From Middle High German wī(h)er, from earlier wīwære, from Old High German wīwāri, from Proto-West Germanic *wīwārī (“pond”), from Latin vīvārium. Doublet of Vivarium.

Sentences

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde der Weiher auch als Badesee genutzt .

After the Second World War, the pond was also used as a bathing lake.