Spur

See also: spur, špur, and șpur

English

Etymology

English surname, variant of Spurr. Compare the noun spur.

Proper noun

Spur (plural Spurs)

1. An occupational surname from Middle English

Synonyms

• Spoor
• Spoore
• Spoores
• Spoors
• Spor
• Spore
• Spores
• Spors
• Spurs

 

Noun

Spur (plural Spurs)

1. (soccer) someone connected with Tottenham Hotspur FC, as a fan, player, coach etc.

Anagrams

• Prus, purs, surp

German

Etymology

From Middle High German spur, spor (usually n, also rarely m and f), from Old High German spor, *spur, from Proto-Germanic *spurą n. Cognate to Dutch spoor, whence (through Afrikaans) English spoor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃpuːr/, [ʃpu(ː)ɐ̯]
• Rhymes: -uːɐ̯

• Audio:

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Noun

Spur f (genitive Spur, plural Spuren)

1. trace (rest of something that indicates its former presence; (by extension) any small amount)
2. trail, track, spoor (path of signs leading somewhere, also e.g. through scent)
   • 1995, “Du riechst so gut”, performed by Rammstein:

     Die Spur ist frisch und auf die Brücke
     Tropft dein Schweiß, dein warmes Blut
     Ich seh' dich nicht
     Ich riech' dich nur ich spüre dich
     Ein Raubtier, das vor Hunger schreit
     Wittere ich dich meilenweit

     The trail is fresh and on the bridge
     Your sweat drips, your warm blood
     I don't see you
     I smell you I only sense you
     A predator that screams of hunger
     I smell you from miles away

3. lead, clue (evidence pointing to a solution)
4. lane (of a street, road)
5. (music) track
6. (mathematics) trace (sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix)

Declension

Declension of Spur [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Spur	die	Spuren
genitive	einer	der	Spur	der	Spuren
dative	einer	der	Spur	den	Spuren
accusative	eine	die	Spur	die	Spuren

Hyponyms

• Blutspur (“blood trail, trail of blood”)
• Bremsspur
• Fahrspur (“lane”)
• Fußspur
• Ölspur
• Radspur (“wheel track”)
• Wagenspur (“wheel track”)
• Tonspur

Derived terms

adjectives

• dreispurig
• einspurig
• großspurig
• mehrspurig
• spurlos
• zweispurig

 

compound nouns

• Abbiegespur
• Blutspur
• Breitspur
• Bremsspur
• Busspur
• Fahrspur
• Fußspur
• Meterspur
• Normalspur
• Ölspur
• Radspur
• Sauerstoffspur
• Schmalspur
• Schmauchspur
• Spurensicherung
• Spurrinne
• Spurvermessung
• Spurversatz
• Spurweite
• Tonspur

 

Further reading

• “Spur” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Spur” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Spur” in Duden online
• Spur on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃpuːə̯/

Noun

Spur f (plural Spuren)

1. Alternative spelling of Spuer