witbier

From Dutch witbier.

witbier (countable and uncountable, plural witbiers)

1. A top-fermented barley/wheat beer brewed mainly in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Compound of weit +‎ bier, in which weit is a (now obsolete) cognate of English wheat and German Weizen, or compound of wit +‎ bier. The latter may be a later folk etymology, based on the former.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɪt.biːr/

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• Hyphenation: wit‧bier

witbier n (plural witbieren, diminutive witbiertje n)

1. (uncountable, countable) witbier, a top-fermented beer, brewed from wheat and barley, mainly brewed in Belgium and the Netherlands