beer
Afrikaans
/bɪər/
noun
Definitions
- bear
Etymology
Inherited from Dutch, Flemish beer (bear, liquid waste, boar, a bear, liquid manure) inherited from Proto-Germanic *berô (bear).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*berô
Gloss
bear
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
熊
Emoji
🐨 🐻❄️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Berengar English
- Beerenberg Dutch, Flemish
- asbeer Dutch, Flemish
- beer Dutch, Flemish
- beerkar Dutch, Flemish
- beerput Dutch, Flemish
- bere- Dutch, Flemish
- berenleider Dutch, Flemish
- berig Dutch, Flemish
- berin Dutch, Flemish
- brombeer Dutch, Flemish
- grottenbeer Dutch, Flemish
- holenbeer Dutch, Flemish
- ijsbeer Dutch, Flemish
- knuffelbeer Dutch, Flemish
- manbeer Dutch, Flemish
- neusbeer Dutch, Flemish
- poolbeer Dutch, Flemish
- rukbeer Dutch, Flemish
- sneeuwbeer Dutch, Flemish
- steunbeer Dutch, Flemish
- wasbeer Dutch, Flemish
- weerbeer Dutch, Flemish
- zeebeer Dutch, Flemish
- *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰerH- Proto-Indo-European
- *bernuz Proto-Germanic
- *berô Proto-Germanic
- bera Old English
- Bjarni Old Norse
- bēre Middle Dutch
- bero Old High German
- *berō gmw-pro
- *bero Old Dutch
- bero Old Saxon
- *bara Old Frisian