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''Were'' and ''wer'' are archaic terms for adult male humans and were often used for alliteration with wife as "were and wife" in Germanic-speaking cultures (, (ドイツ語:Wehr), (オランダ語:weer), , , , , ). In folklore and fantasy fiction, ''were-'' is often used as a prefix applied to an animal name to indicate a type of lycanthropy and/or shapeshifter (''e.g.'' "were-boar"). Hyphenation used to be mandatory but is now commonly dropped, as in werecat and wererat. This usage can be seen as a back-formation from ''werewolf'' (literally, "man-wolf"), as there is no equivalent ''wifewolf''. Gothic has a word translating ''kosmos'', not derived from the same stem: ', used by Ulfilas in alternation with '. The corresponding West Germanic term is ' "world", literally ''wer'' "man" + ''ald'' "age". Gothic ' is cognate to Old High German ', Old English ', terms expressing "lifetime" (''ラテン語:aevum'').〔Jacob Grimm, ''Deutsche Mythologie'', ch. 25, (Northveg.org )〕 The word has cognates in various other languages, for example, the words ''ラテン語:vir'' (as in virility) and ' (plural ' as in Fir Bolg) are the Latin and Gaelic for a male human. ==See also== * Lycanthropy (disambiguation) * Mannaz * Werecat * Weregild * Werehyena * Were-jaguar * Wererat * Werewolf 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「were」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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