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dere¹
- /dɪə/ UK
Sounds like dear, deer · Rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English dere, from Old English dæru, daru (“injury, hurt, harm, damage, calamity; loss, deprivation”), from Proto-West Germanic *daru, from Proto-Germanic *darō (“damage, injury”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰórh₃-eh₂, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch dare, dere, Low German dere, Old High German tara, Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬭𐬁 (dārā), Sanskrit धारा (dhā́rā).
noun deres
- Hurt; harm; injury. She did him dere.
dere²
- /dɪə/ UK
Sounds like dear, deer · Rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English deren, from Old English derian (“to damage, injure, hurt, harm”), from Proto-West Germanic *darjan (“to injure, harm”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dera (“to injure, damage”), West Frisian deare, derre (“to harm, injure”), Dutch deren (“to injure, damage, scathe”), Middle High German tern (“to injure”). Related to dart.
verb deres · dering · dered
- To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
- To annoy, trouble, grieve.
dere³
- /dɛː(ɹ)/
- /d̪ɛː(ɹ)/ English, Ulster
- /d̪ɛə(ɹ)/ Midlands
- /d̪iəɹ/
Sounds like dare (some accents) · Rhymes with -ɛː(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.
adverb der
- Pronunciation spelling of there.there
interjection der
- Pronunciation spelling of there.there
noun der
- Pronunciation spelling of there.there
pronoun der
- Pronunciation spelling of there.there
