diere

diere

1. plural of dier

Borrowed from Sicilian dieri, from Arabic دِيَار (diyār), plural of دَار (dār, “house, building, structure”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdjɛ.re/
• Rhymes: -ɛre
• Hyphenation: diè‧re

diere m (plural dieri)

1. (architecture) Sicilian rupestrian house carved into the limestone rock, found on the Hyblaean Mountains

• Category:Dieri on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

From Old Dutch diuri, from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz.

diere

1. valuable
2. expensive
3. dear, precious
4. excellent

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• dure

• Dutch: dier, duur
• Limburgish: deer, duur
• West Flemish: diere

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

diere

1. inflection of dijn:
   1. feminine genitive/dative singular
   2. genitive plural

diere

1. inflection of die:
   1. feminine genitive/dative singular
   2. genitive plural

diere

1. inflection of dier:
   1. dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative/genitive plural

• “diere, dure (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “diere (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

• dīore — Northumbrian
• dȳre, dēore

From Proto-West Germanic *diurī, from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz. Cognate with Old Frisian diūre, Old Saxon diuri, Old Dutch diuri, Old High German tiuri, Old Norse dýrr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi͜yː.re/

dīere

1. (West Saxon) costly, expensive

   Sweord bēoþ swīðe dīeru wǣpnu and torbeġīetu.

   Swords are very expensive weapons, and hard to get.

2. (West Saxon) dear, precious

• dīerling

dīere

1. expensively, for a lot of money
2. dearly

• undīere (“cheap”)

• Middle English: dere, deere, deore
  • English: dear
  • Scots: dere, deir
  • Yola: dear

diere

1. dative/locative singular of diera

• IPA^(key): /ˈdjeɾe/ [ˈd̪je.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -eɾe
• Syllabification: die‧re

diere

1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of dar

From Middle Dutch diere, from Old Dutch diuri, from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz.

diere (comparative dierder, superlative dierste)

1. expensive