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weres

man-GEN

Attested in Exeter Book Riddle 47

Lemma: wer 'man' (oe-gen)

wer
N (masc, a-stem)
man; male; husband; hero, warrior; civil
Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wer#Old_English
originates from: PGmc *wira- 'man' (pwgmc-final-a) through pgmc-to-oe
(source: Kroonen 2013:588)
Inflected forms
wera 'man-gen.pl' (oe-gen-pl) in Aelfric's Colloquy 4
Paradigms