spoor

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See also: Spoor

English

Etymology

From Afrikaans spoor, from Dutch spoor, akin to Old English and Old English spor (whence Danish spor), and German Spur, all from Proto-Germanic *spurą. Compare spurn.

Pronunciation

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  • Homophones: spore (in some accents)

Noun

spoor (usually uncountable, plural spoors)

  1. The track, trail, droppings or scent of an animal
    • 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.
    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII
      Even poor Nobs appeared dejected as we quit the compound and set out upon the well-marked spoor of the abductor.

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

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spoːr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: spoor
  • Rhymes: -oːr

Etymology 1

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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
  • → Javanese: sepur(Please either change this template to {{desc}} or insert a ====Descendants==== section in sepur#Javanese)
  • → Indonesian: sepur (“railway track”)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

spoor f (plural sporen, diminutive spoortje n)

  1. spur
  2. spore
Derived terms

Middle English

Noun

spoor

  1. Alternative form of spore
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