speer
English
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Etymology 1
Noun
speer (plural speers)
Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English spyrian, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *spurjaną. Cognate with German spüren, Swedish spörja.
Verb
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch spēre, from Old Dutch *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.
Pronunciation
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Noun
speer f (plural speren, diminutive speertje n)
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speer
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