bere
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bere¹
- /bɪə/ UK
- /bɪɚ/ US
Sounds like beer, bier, bear (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) · Rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English bere (“barley”), from Old English bere (“barley”), from Proto-West Germanic *barī, from Proto-Germanic *baraz (“barley”). Compare Welsh bara (“bread”), Latin far (“emmer”), Serbo-Croatian бра̏шно/brȁšno (“flour”), Albanian bar (“grass”), Ancient Greek Φήρον (Phḗron, “plant deity”). See also: barley.
noun bear
- Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley.
bere²
- /bɪə/ UK
- /bɛə/ UK
- /bɪɚ/ US
- /bɛɚ/ US
Where it comes from
See bear (“pillowcase”)
noun beres
- A pillowcase; a fabric case or covering as for a pillow; a pillowbere. Woven and embroidered coverlets in imitation of tapestry appear as 'a tapestry covering which lieth on my bed' [...] 'a pillow of feathers with a bere' (pillow-case); 'two pillows and the beres to [cover them]'
