teer

teer (third-person singular simple present teers, present participle teering, simple past and past participle teered)

1. (transitive) To stir, as a calico-printer's sieve.

• TREE, Tree, reet, rete, tree

• IPA^(key): /teːr/

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• Rhymes: -eːr

teer m or n (uncountable)

1. tar

-general:

-types of tar:

• Berbice Creole Dutch: tere
• Negerhollands: taer
• → Caribbean Javanese: tir
• → Indonesian: ter

From Middle Dutch têer, alternative form of têder, têeder (whence modern Dutch teder), from Old Dutch *tidar, from Proto-Germanic *tidaraz; cognate to Middle English teere.

teer m (uncountable)

1. tenderness

teer (comparative teerder, superlative teerst)

1. tender, delicate

• Negerhollands: teer, teeri

teer

1. inflection of teren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Over time, teer was also used to refer to tuberculosis, analogously to English consumption.

teer m (uncountable)

1. the act of digesting or being consumed
2. tuberculosis

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)

1. tree

• appelteer, elzenteer

• eert, eter, reet, tere, tree

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teer

1. singular imperative of teeren
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of teeren

From Old English tēar, tǣr, tæhher, teagor, from Proto-West Germanic *tahr.

• teere, ter, tere
• tær, tear (Early Middle English)
• tyer, tyear, tyar (Kent)

• IPA^(key): /tɛːr/

teer (plural teres or teren)

1. A tear (drop of liquid from the eyes):
   1. A tear as a symptom of disease or injury.
   2. An emotionally-triggered tear (e.g. ecstasy, remorse, sadness, sympathy)
2. A drop of liquid resembling a teardrop.
3. (figuratively) The feeling of teariness or distress.

This noun usually appears in the plural, which is usually teres; teren is early and rare.

• teren
• tery

• English: tear
• Middle Scots: tear, tere, teir, tichwr, tychir
  • Scots: tear, taer, tare, teir

• “tēr(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-25.

Borrowed from Middle Dutch têer, alternative form of têder, têeder (whence modern Dutch teder), from Old Dutch *tidar, from Proto-Germanic *tidaraz.

• teere, ter, tere

• IPA^(key): /tɛːr/

teer

1. Of good quality or manners.

• English: tear, tare (“good flax”) (obsolete)

• “tēr, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-25.

teer

1. Alternative form of ter (“tar”)

teer

1. Alternative form of teren (“to ruin by removing or splitting”)

teer

1. indefinite plural of te

• eter