bærs

Middle English

Noun

bærs

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of bace

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bars, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”, literally “prickly”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bærs/, [bærˠs]

Noun

bærs m

1. perch (fish)

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “bærs”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.