Thier

See also: thier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Thier.

Proper noun

Thier (plural Thiers)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Thier is the 35721^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 629 individuals. Thier is most common among White (94.44%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Thier”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Erith, Reith, Rieth, rithe, tehri, their, theri-

German

Noun

Thier n (strong, genitive Thieres or Thiers, plural Thiere, diminutive Thierchen n or Thierlein n)

1. Obsolete spelling of Tier which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.
   • 1813, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Einleitungsvorlesungen in die Wissenschaftslehre (edited by Immanuel Hermann Fichte, Leipzig, 1834), page 13:

     Wie, nach ihnen, die Pflanze nicht anders kann, denn wachsen, das Thier nicht anders, denn sich bewegen, […]

     How, following them, the plant can’t but grow, the animal can’t but move […]

Declension

Declension of Thier [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Thier	die	Thiere
genitive	eines	des	Thieres, Thiers	der	Thiere
dative	einem	dem	Thier, Thiere1	den	Thieren
accusative	ein	das	Thier	die	Thiere

¹Now uncommon, see notes.