laars

• IPA^(key): /laːrs/

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• Hyphenation: laars
• Rhymes: -aːrs

From Middle Dutch leerse, laerse, from syncope of unattested *lederse, contracted from *lederhose, from leder + hose. Compare German Lederhose (from which is borrowed the doublet lederhose), where no contraction occurred.

laars f (plural laarzen, diminutive laarsje n)

1. boot

• bot (Flanders)
• stevel

• Negerhollands: laars
• → Kari'na: rarsy
• → Papiamentu: lars, lers, leers

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

laars

1. inflection of laarzen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative