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See also:Teerandtẽer

English

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Verb

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teer (third-person singular simple presentteers,present participleteering,simple past and past participleteered)

  1. (transitive) Tostir, as acalico-printer'ssieve.

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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teer m orn (uncountable,nodiminutive)

  1. tar
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-general:

-types of tar:

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

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Dutchteer, contraction ofteder,teeder, fromOld Dutch*tidar, fromProto-Germanic*tidaraz.Doublet ofteder. Cognate toMiddle Englishteere.

Adjective

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teer (comparativeteerder,superlativeteerst)

  1. tender,delicate
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  • Teer tends to be used in sense of “easily damaged”, while the doubletteder is used in the sense of “fond, gentle”. For example,een tere gezondheid(“a delicate health”), buteen teder moment(“a tender moment”).
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Declension ofteer
uninflectedteer
inflectedtere
comparativeteerder
positivecomparativesuperlative
predicative/adverbialteerteerderhetteerst
hetteerste
indefinitem./f. sing.tereteerdereteerste
n. sing.teerteerderteerste
pluraltereteerdereteerste
definitetereteerdereteerste
partitiveteersteerders—
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Noun

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teer m (uncountable,nodiminutive)

  1. tenderness

Etymology 3

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Verb

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teer

  1. inflection ofteren:
    1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
    3. imperative

Etymology 4

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Over time,teer was also used to refer totuberculosis, analogously to Englishconsumption.

Noun

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teer m (uncountable,nodiminutive)

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

Etymology 5

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FromMiddle Dutchtree, fromOld Dutch*trio,*treo, fromProto-West Germanic*treu, fromProto-Germanic*trewą(“tree, wood”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative ofProto-Indo-European*dóru(“tree”). Cognate withEnglishtree,Danishtræ.

Noun

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teer m (pluralteren,diminutiveteertje n)

  1. (obsolete)tree(Can weverify(+) this sense?)
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German

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Verb

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teer

  1. singularimperative ofteeren
  2. (colloquial)first-personsingularpresent ofteeren

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Englishtēar,tǣr,tæher,teagor, fromProto-West Germanic*tahr.

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Noun

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teer (pluralteres orteren)

  1. Atear(drop ofliquid from theeyes):
    1. A tear as a symptom ofdisease orinjury.
    2. An emotionally-triggered tear(e.g.ecstasy,remorse,sadness,sympathy)
  2. Adrop ofliquid resembling ateardrop.
  3. (figuratively) The feeling ofteariness ordistress.
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  • This noun usually appears in the plural.
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed fromMiddle Dutchtêer, alternative form oftêder,têeder (whence modernDutchteder), fromOld Dutch*tidar, fromProto-Germanic*tidaraz.

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Adjective

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teer

  1. Of goodquality ormanners.
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  • English:tear,tare(“good flax”)(obsolete)
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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teer

  1. alternative form ofter(“tar”)

Etymology 4

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Verb

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teer

  1. alternative form ofteren(“to ruin by removing or splitting”)

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Noun

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teer

  1. indefiniteplural ofte

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