kers
Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From dialectal Dutch kers (“candle”), variant of kaars, from Middle Dutch kerse. The Dutch development -er- → -aar- before a dental consonant is absent in a number of Afrikaans words (compare lantern, perd, stert, werd).
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
kers (plural kerse, diminutive kersie)
Usage notes edit
- The diminutive kersie is the same as the noun kersie (“cherry”); it is avoided unless the context is clear.
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch kerse, ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from the neuter plural of Late Latin ceresium, from Latin cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin.
Noun edit
kers f (plural kersen, diminutive kersje n)
- A cherry tree, one of certain trees of the genus Prunus, especially the subgenus Cerasus.
- A cherry, a stone fruit of a cherry tree.
Hypernyms edit
- (cherry fruit): steenfruit, steenvrucht
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- ⇒ Afrikaans: kersie (from the diminutive form)
- Negerhollands: kirsch
- → Caribbean Hindustani: kers
- → Malay: kersen (from the plural form)
- → Sranan Tongo: kersi
- → West Frisian: kers
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Dutch kerse, kersse, from Old Dutch *kersa, *kressa, from Proto-West Germanic *karsjā, *krassjā, from Proto-Germanic *krasjǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gras-. Cognates include Sanskrit ग्रसति (grasati); related to English cress, German Kresse.
Noun edit
kers f (uncountable)
- cress: a term used of various plants, chiefly but not solely of the family Brassicaceae (crucifers), particularly of the genus Rorippa
Derived terms edit
Icelandic edit
Noun edit
kers
Indonesian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kèrs (first-person possessive kersku, second-person possessive kersmu, third-person possessive kersnya)
Synonyms edit
West Frisian edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
kers c (plural kersen, diminutive kerske)
Alternative forms edit
- kjers (Wood)
Further reading edit
- “kers (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011