teer
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teer (third-person singular simple present teers, present participle teering, simple past and past participle teered)
teer m or n (uncountable)
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From Middle Dutch teer, contraction of teder, teeder, from Old Dutch *tidar, from Proto-Germanic *tidaraz. Doublet of teder. Cognate to Middle English teere.
teer (comparative teerder, superlative teerst)
Declension of teer | ||||
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uninflected | teer | |||
inflected | tere | |||
comparative | teerder | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | teer | teerder | het teerst het teerste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | tere | teerdere | teerste |
n. sing. | teer | teerder | teerste | |
plural | tere | teerdere | teerste | |
definite | tere | teerdere | teerste | |
partitive | teers | teerders | — |
teer m (uncountable)
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Over time, teer was also used to refer to tuberculosis, analogously to English consumption.
teer m (uncountable)
From Middle Dutch tree, from Old Dutch *trio, *treo, from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree, wood”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Cognate with English tree, Danish træ.
teer m (plural teren, diminutive teertje n)
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From Old English tēar, tǣr, tæhher, teagor, from Proto-West Germanic *tahr.
This noun usually appears in the plural, which is usually teres; teren is early and rare.
Borrowed from Middle Dutch têer, alternative form of têder, têeder (whence modern Dutch teder), from Old Dutch *tidar, from Proto-Germanic *tidaraz.
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