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

deor

1. (AB language, Herefordshire, Ormulum, Shropshire, Somerset, Worcestershire) alternative form of der (“deer”)

• 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 dvė̃sti and Russian душа́ (dušá).

• IPA^(key): /de͜oːr/
• Rhymes: -e͜oːr

dēor n

1. wild animal, beast
   • c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham, transl., Hexameron of St. Basil‎^[1]:

     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: der, deer, dere, dier, deare, dure (Late Middle English), deor, dor, duer, dur (Southern, West Midland)
  • English: deer
  • Middle Scots: dere, deir, deyr
    • Scots: deer

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “deór”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Etymology 1.

• IPA^(key): /de͜oːr/

dēor

1. brave, bold as a wild beast
   • 10th century, The Seafarer:

     Forþon þæt eorla ġehwām, æftercweþendra lof lifgendra lāstworda betst. Þæt hē ġewyrċe, ǣr hē on weġ sċyle, fremman on foldan wið fēonda nīþ, dēorum dǣdum dēofle tōġēanes, þæt hine ælda bearn æfter herġen, ond his lof siþþan lifġe mid englum āwa tō ealdre, ēċan līfes blǣd, drēam mid dugeþum.

     Thus, for every man, the praise of the after-speakers is the best of the living ones' reputations. That he would make it well, before he should set off on the way, to further on Earth against foes' hate, by bold deeds against the Devil, that they would afterwards praise his child of men, and his honor since would live among the angels for ever and ever, blessedness, bliss with glees of the everlasting life.

2. heavy, severe, dire, vehement

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “deór”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• dehoryd, dehori, dïor, dyor

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).^[1]

• 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”)