bier
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bier
- /bɪə/ UK
- /bɪɚ/ US
Sounds like beer, bere, bear (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) · Rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English beer, beere, bere, from Old English bēr, (West Saxon) bǣr (“stretcher, bier”), from Proto-West Germanic *bāru, from Proto-Germanic *bērō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Beere (“stretcher, bier”), Dutch baar (“bier”), German Bahre (“bier, stretcher”). More at bear.
noun biers
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- A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.
