bærs
Middle English
Noun
bærs
- (Early Middle English) alternative form of bace
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *bars, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”, literally “prickly”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bærs/, [bærˠs]
Noun
bærs m
- perch (fish)
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “bærs”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.