deor

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /dʲoːɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /dʲɔːɾˠ/

deor f pl

1. genitive plural of deoir

deor m (genitive singular deoir, nominative plural deora)

1. alternative form of deoir

• dēar — Northumbrian
• dīor — Kentish

From Proto-West Germanic *deuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *deuzą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewsóm.

Germanic cognates include Old Frisian diār, Old Saxon dior, Old Dutch dior, dier, Old High German tior, Old Norse dýr, Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍃 (dius). Further cognates include Lithuanian dvēsti and Russian душа́ (dušá).

• IPA^(key): /de͜oːr/

dēor n

1. wild animal, beast
   • c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham (tr.), Hexameron of St. Basil:

     Hwæt ðā God ġeworhte ðurh his wunderlīċan mihte eall nȳtencynn on heora cynrynum, and ðā wildan dēor ðe on wudum eardiað, and eall ðæt fīðerfōte byð of ðǣre foresǣdan eorðan, and eall wyrmcynn ðā ðe crēopende bēoð, and ðā rēðan lēon, ðe hēr on lande ne bēoð, and ðā swiftan tigres, and ðā syllican pardes, and ðā eġeslīċan beran, and ðā ormǣtan ylpas.

     Then, through his wonderful might, God created all the kinds of animals according to their kinds, and the wild animals that dwell in the woods, and all the four-footed creatures of the aforementioned earth, and all the kinds of creeping reptiles, and the savage lions, which do not live here, and the swift tigers, and the marvelous leopards, and the fearful bears, and the huge elephants.

2. deer
3. reindeer

Strong a-stem:

• dēorcynn
• dēoren
• wilddēor

• Middle English: deor, deure, dure, dier, dere
  • Scots: dere, deir
  • English: deer

• dehoryd, dehori, dïor, dyor

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• IPA^(key): /ˈdeː.ɔr/

deor (first-person singular present dehoraf)

1. to hinder, impede, prevent
   1. to withhold, exclude from
   2. to refrain from
2. to hatch, to brood, to incubate
   1. to breed

      Synonyms: bridio, epilio

   2. (figurative) to produce, to hatch (a plot)

      Synonyms: cynhyrchu, dyfeisio

   3. (figurative) to brood, to meditate morbidly

      Synonym: synfyfyrio

   4. to hatch (emerge from an egg)
      1. (figurative) to come into being, to come to fruition, to appear

         Synonyms: dod i fod, ymddangos, aeddfedu

3. to shell or peel (peas)

   Synonyms: digibo, blisgo, disbeinio, masglu

4. to inlay, to veneer

   Synonyms: arddalennu, arwynebu

• deor ar (“to brood upon, to hatch, to bring forth”)
• iâr ddeor (“broody hen”)