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deer

See also: Appendix:Variations of "deer"

English

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A deer (1)
 
Two deer (1)
 
A Siberian musk deer

Etymology

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From Middle English deere, dere, der, dier, deor (“small animal, deer”), from Old English dēor (“animal”), from Proto-West Germanic *deuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *deuzą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewsóm (“living thing”), from *dʰéws (“breath”), full-grade derivative of *dʰwes-.

Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“deer”), North Frisian dier (“animal, beast”), West Frisian dier (“animal, beast”), Dutch dier (“animal, beast”), German Low German Deer, Deert (“animal”), German Tier (“animal, beast”), Swedish djur (“animal, beast”), Norwegian dyr (“animal, beast”), Icelandic dýr (“animal, beast”), Danish dyr (“animal, beast”).

Related also to Albanian dash (“ram”) (possibly), Lithuanian daũsos (“upper air; heaven”), Lithuanian dùsti (“to sigh”), Russian душа́ (dušá, “breath, spirit”), Lithuanian dvėsti (“to breathe, exhale”), Sanskrit ध्वंसति (dhvaṃsati, “he falls to dust”).

For the semantic development compare Latin animālis (“animal”), from anima (“breath, spirit”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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deer (plural deer or (nonstandard) deers)

 
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  1. A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla.
  2. (in particular) One of the smaller animals of this family, distinguished from a moose or elk.
    I wrecked my car after a deer ran across the road.
    • 2020, Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind, Bloomsbury (2023), page 76:
      In the space beyond that, Rose saw a deer, with abbreviated velvet antlers and a cautious yet somehow also bored mien, considering her through dark, strangely human eyes.
  3. The meat of such an animal; venison.
    Oh, I've never had deer before.
  4. (obsolete, except in the phrase "small deer") Any animal, especially a quadrupedal mammal as opposed to a bird, fish, etc.
    • 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act III, scene IV:
      But mice and rats and such small deer, have been Tom's food for seven long year.

Hypernyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Sranan Tongo: dia

Translations

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Anagrams

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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deer

  1. inflection of deren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Hunsrik

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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From Middle High German it, from Old High German ir. Compare Luxembourgish dir.

Pronoun

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deer

  1. you (plural)
  2. (formal) you (singular)

Etymology 2

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Pronoun

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deer

  1. stressed dative of du

Inflection

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Hunsrik personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative
Proclitic Enclitic str. unstr. str. unstr.
1st person singular ich

eich

-ich mich

meich

meer mer

m'r

2nd person singular
(informal) 		du

dau/Dau

-du, -de

-Dau, -De

dich

deich/Deich

deer der

d'r/D'r

3rd person singular (m.) er; där -er ihn en ihm em
3rd person singular (f.) sie; die -se sie / ihns se eer

ehr

re
3rd person singular (n.) es; das

et, 't

's es

et

-et, -'t

ihm em
1st person plural meer mer uns

uhs

2nd person plural deer

Ehr, Dehr

der eich

Auch

3rd person plural sie; die -se sie se denne

References

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  • Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “deer”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 32, column 2

Limburgish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch dier, from Old Dutch dier, from Proto-Germanic *deuzą.

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Noun

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deer n

  1. pet
  2. beast, animal

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Nawdm

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Etymology

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Compare Tem ɖeére.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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deer (plural deera)

  1. horse

References

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  • Bakabima, Koulon Stéphane, Nicole, Jacques (2018) Nawdm-French Dictionary‎[1], SIL International

Saterland Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian dēr, thēr, from Proto-West Germanic *þār. More at there.

Adverb

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deer

  1. there
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