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offer

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EnglishEdit

 
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Alternative formsEdit

  • offre (obsolete)
  • offa (pronunciation spelling)

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English offer, from Old English offrian (“offer or make a sacrifice”) rather than from Old French offre (“offer”), from offrir (“to offer”), from Latin offerō (“to present, bring before”). Compare North Frisian offer (“sacrifice, donation, fee”), Dutch offer (“offering, sacrifice”), German Opfer (“victim, sacrifice”), Danish offer (“victim, sacrifice”), Icelandic offr (“offering”). See verb below.

NounEdit

offer (plural offers)

  1. A proposal that has been made.
    What's in his offer?
    I decline your offer to contract.
  2. Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.
    His offer was $3.50 per share.
  3. (law) An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation.
    His first letter was not a real offer, but an attempt to determine interest.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • → Tokelauan: ofo
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Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English offren, offrien. In the religious senses inherited from Old English offrian (“to offer, sacrifice, bring an oblation”); otherwise from Old French ofrir. Both ultimately from Latin offerō (“to present, bestow, bring before”, literally “to bring to”), from Latin ob + ferō (“bring, carry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”), later reinforced by Old French offrir (“to offer”). Cognate with Old Frisian offria (“to offer”), Old Dutch offrōn (“to offer”), German opfern (“to offer”), Old Norse offra (“to offer”). More at ob-, bear.

VerbEdit

offer (third-person singular simple present offers, present participle offering, simple past and past participle offered)

  1. (intransitive) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).
    She offered to help with her homework.
  2. (transitive) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.
    Everybody offered an opinion.
  3. (transitive) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.
    He offered use of his car for the week.  He offered his good will for the Councilman's vote.
    • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
      Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
    • 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
      Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
  4. (transitive) To present (something) to God or gods as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.
  5. (transitive, engineering) To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.
    • 2009, Roger Williams, Triumph Tr2, 3, 3a, 4 & 4a:
      The next stage is to remove and replace the top part of the right side lip, and offer the lid to the car to ensure all the shapes and gaps are okay.
  6. (transitive) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.
    I offered twenty dollars for it. The company is offering a salary of £30,000 a year.
  7. (intransitive) To happen, to present itself.
  8. (obsolete) To make an attempt; typically used with at.
  9. (transitive) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.
    to offer violence to somebody
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Etymology 3Edit

off +‎ -er

NounEdit

offer (plural offers)

  1. (used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off
    • 2003, James-Jason Gantt, Losing Summer‎[1], →ISBN, page 146:
      Once you finally discover yourself a dismember-er, a de-limber, a fucking head-cutter-offer, the most simple of tasks — enjoying a long walk outside, seeing a movie, conversing with a stranger in the library — all become prized and over-inflated moments of elation.

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DanishEdit

NounEdit

offer n (singular definite ofret or offeret, plural indefinite ofre)

  1. sacrifice
  2. victim

InflectionEdit

Declension of offer
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative offer ofret
offeret 		ofre ofrene
genitive offers ofrets
offerets 		ofres ofrenes

Derived termsEdit

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle Dutch offere, from Old Dutch [Term?].

NounEdit

offer n (plural offers, diminutive offertje n)

  1. sacrifice
  2. victim
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • Negerhollands: offer
  • → Papiamentu: offer (dated)

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

offer

  1. first-person singular present indicative of offeren
  2. imperative of offeren

LatinEdit

VerbEdit

offer

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of offerō

Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse offr.

NounEdit

offer n (definite singular offeret, indefinite plural offer or ofre, definite plural ofra or ofrene)

  1. a sacrifice
  2. a victim, a casualty

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse offr.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

offer n (definite singular offeret, indefinite plural offer, definite plural offera)

  1. a sacrifice
  2. a victim, a casualty
    Offera var alle drepne på same måten.
    The victims were all killed in the same manner.

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SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse offr.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

offer n

  1. sacrifice
  2. victim

DeclensionEdit

Declension of offer 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative offer offret offer offren
Genitive offers offrets offers offrens

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WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

Apparently from Middle Welsh offer (“an offer”), from Middle English offer, from Old French offre, though the semantic development is unclear.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

offer f (plural offerau or offeriau or offrau)

  1. equipment

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
offer unchanged unchanged hoffer
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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