speer
EnglishEdit
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Etymology 1Edit
See sphere.
NounEdit
speer (plural speers)
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English spuren, from Old English spyrian, from Proto-Germanic *spurjaną. Cognate with German spüren, Swedish spörja.
VerbEdit
speer (third-person singular simple present speers, present participle speering, simple past and past participle speered)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “speer” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Dutch spēre, from Old Dutch *speru, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.
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NounEdit
speer f (plural speren, diminutive speertje n)
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- → Papiamentu: sper
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
speer
- Alternative form of spere (“spear”)