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Revision as of 13:04, 14 February 2023

See also: Spoor

English

Etymology

Early 19th century, from Afrikaans spoor, from Dutch spoor (“track”).[1]

Akin to Old English and Old Norse spor (whence Danish spor), and German Spur, all from Proto-Germanic *spurą. Compare spurn.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ʊə, -ʊɹ, -ɔɹ
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Noun

spoor (usually uncountable, plural spoors)

  1. The track, trail, droppings or scent of an animal.
    • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎[1]:
      We all stopped to examine that monstrous spoor. If it were indeed a bird - and what animal could leave such a mark? - its foot was so much larger than an ostrich's that its height upon the same scale must be enormous.
    • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
      Even poor Nobs appeared dejected as we quit the compound and set out upon the well-marked spoor of the abductor.
    • 1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 10
      Now he has picked up the spoor of drunken vomit and there is the doll sprawled against a wall, his pants streaked with urine.

Translations

Verb

spoor (third-person singular simple present spoors, present participle spooring, simple past and past participle spoored)

  1. (transitive) To track an animal by following its spoor

References

  1. ^ “spoor”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch spor, from Old Dutch *spor, from Proto-Germanic *spurą, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.

Noun

spoor n (plural sporen, diminutive spoortje n)

  1. track
  2. railway track
  3. trace
  4. spoor
  5. lead, trail, clue
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: spoor
  • Jersey Dutch: spôr
  • Negerhollands: spoor
  • Petjo: sepoor
  • → Caribbean Javanese: sepur
  • → Indonesian: sepur (“railway track”)
  • → Javanese: ꦱꦼꦥꦸꦂ (sepur)
    • → Indonesian: sepur (“train”) (semantic loan)
  • → Papiamentu: spor

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch spore, from Old Dutch *sporo from Proto-West Germanic *sporō, from Proto-Germanic *spurô, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.

Noun

spoor f (plural sporen, diminutive spoortje n)

  1. spur
  2. spore
Derived terms
Descendants

Middle English

Noun

spoor

  1. Alternative form of spore
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