stier

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Danish[edit]

Noun[edit]

stier c

  1. indefinite plural of sti

Dutch[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle Dutch stier, from Old Dutch stier, from Proto-Germanic *steuraz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)táwros. Doublet of tauros.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /stiːr/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: stier
  • Rhymes: -ir

Noun[edit]

stier m (plural stieren, diminutive stiertje n, feminine koe)

  1. A bull; a male of certain mammals, in particular bovines.
    Synonym: bul

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Afrikaans: stier

Anagrams[edit]

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Since the 15th century, probably from Middle Low German stūr(e) with influence from German Stier.[1] Doublet of stur.

Adjective[edit]

stier (strong nominative masculine singular stierer, not comparable)

  1. (literary) rigid, unyielding, starched, stiffened
    • 1767, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm[1], 4. Akt, 6. Szene:
      Oh, über die wilden, unbiegsamen Männer, die nur immer ihr stieres Auge auf das Gespenst der Ehre heften!
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1965 [1835], Théophile Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin; translated by Alastair and first published by Henry Goverts Verlag, Stuttgart 1965, then by Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., München 1987, page 7:
      Sous ce linceul d'ennui nonchalant et affaissé dont je t'ai parlé tout à l'heure remue parfois une pensée plutôt engourdie que morte, et je n'ai pas toujours le calme doux et triste que donne la mélancolie.
      Unter dem Leichentuch gleichmütiger und stierer Langeweile, von der ich vorhin sprach, regt sich bisweilen eher gelähmtes als erstorbenes Denken, und nicht immer eignet mir sanfttrübe Ruhe, die Melancholie verleiht.

      Beneath this winding sheet of indifferent and depressing languor of which I have just told you, there sometimes stirs a thought, torpid rather than dead, and I do not always possess the sweet, sad calm that melancholy gives.

Declension[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Of an uncertain dialectal provenience related to starr and stur.

Adjective[edit]

stier (strong nominative masculine singular stierer, not comparable)

  1. (Switzerland, Austria, informal) broke; penniless (having no money)
    Synonyms: pleite, blank
  2. (Switzerland, Austria, informal) dull; stagnant; lackadaisical
    Synonyms: flau, unregsam, unbetriebsam, träge
    • 2012 August 22, “«Ich will nicht stier wirken beim Sex!»”, in 20min[2]:
      Aber beim Sex traue ich mich dann doch nicht, meine Ideen umzusetzen – weil ich denke, dass ich langweilig rüberkomme. Ich will aber nicht stier wirken beim Sex.
      But during sex I dare not to realize my ideas – for it appears to me then that I come across longsome. But I do not want to come across as a duffer.
Declension[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

stier

  1. singular imperative of stieren
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of stieren

References[edit]

  1. ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “stier”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

Further reading[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

stier

  1. Alternative form of steȝere

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Noun[edit]

stier m

  1. indefinite plural of sti

Old Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *steuraz.

Noun[edit]

stier m

  1. A bull.

Inflection[edit]

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • stier”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012