spier
Dutch (Brabantic)
/spir/
noun
Definitions
- muscle (contractile tissue)
- (archaic) blade (of a plant)
- (archaic) blade of grass
- spar (pole)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch spier (long pole, blade of grass, muscle, pointed object) inherited from Old Dutch *spīr inherited from Proto-Germanic *spīraz.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*spīraz
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- spire English
- spired English
- spireless English
- spirelet English
- spirelike English
- spiring English
- spiry English
- armbuigspier Dutch, Flemish
- buigen Dutch, Flemish
- buigspier Dutch, Flemish
- bundel Dutch, Flemish
- kracht Dutch, Flemish
- naakt Dutch, Flemish
- skelet Dutch, Flemish
- skeletspier Dutch, Flemish
- spierbundel Dutch, Flemish
- spierkracht Dutch, Flemish
- spierkrachtvliegtuig Dutch, Flemish
- spiernaakt Dutch, Flemish
- spierverlies Dutch, Flemish
- spierversterken Dutch, Flemish
- spierversterking Dutch, Flemish
- spierwit Dutch, Flemish
- verlies Dutch, Flemish
- versterken Dutch, Flemish
- versterking Dutch, Flemish
- welvaart Dutch, Flemish
- welvaartsspieren Dutch, Flemish
- wit Dutch, Flemish
- *spīraz Proto-Germanic
- spire Middle English
- spir Danish
- spier Middle Dutch
- spierwit Afrikaans
- *spīr Old Dutch
- spir Old Danish