Deer

Wikipedia

English

File:Deer in Glenfinnan.jpg

A deer (1)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /dɪə(ɹ), SAMPA: /dI@(r)
• (US) enPR: dîr, IPA: /dɪɹ/, SAMPA: /dIr

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(r)
• Homophones: dear

Etymology

Old English dēor 'animal, beast', from Proto-Germanic *deuzan (cf. Dutch dier, German Tier, Old Norse dyr), from Proto-Indo-European *dheusom 'living thing', from *dheus- 'to breathe' (cf. Lithuanian dùsti 'to sigh', Template:Ru душа (dušá) 'breath'); for semantic development compare Latin animalis 'animal' from anima 'breath, spirit'.

Noun

Singular Deer

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Wikipedia

1. (zoology) a ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla

   I wrecked my car after a deer ran across the road.

2. The meat of such an animal

   Oh I've never had deer before.

3. (archaic) Any animal, especially a mammal.

   But mice and rats and such small deer, have been Tom's food for seven long year. -Shakespeare, King Lear. Act III. Sc. IV.

Synonyms

• buck, stag (male deer)
• doe (female deer)
• fawn (young deer)
• hart (adult deer)
• venison (deer meat)

Derived terms

• white-tailed deer

Translations

the animal

Afrikaans: takbok af(af) Albanian: dre m., sutë f. Ancient Greek: ἔλαφος m. and f. Arabic: أيّل (’áyyil) m. Armenian: եղջերու hy(hy) (eġǰeru) (male), եղնիկ hy(hy) (eġnik) (female) Aymara: taruka Basque: orein Belarusian: алень (alen’) m. Bosnian: jelen m., košuta f., lane n. Breton: karv f. kirvi pl. Bulgarian: елен (elen) (bg) Catalan: cérvol m. (ca) Cherokee: ᎠᏫ (awi) Chinese: Mandarin: 鹿 cmn(cmn) (lù) Croatian: jelen hr(hr) m. Czech: jelen cs(cs) m., laň cs(cs) f. Danish: hjort da(da) Dutch: hert nl(nl) n. Esperanto: cervo eo(eo) Estonian: hirv et(et) Ewe: zi n. Faroese: hjørtur Finnish: hirvieläin fi(fi), hirvi fi(fi), peura fi(fi), kauris fi(fi), poro fi(fi) French: cerf fr(fr) m., chevreuil fr(fr) m. Friulian: cierf Galician: cervo German: Hirsch m. ^ Greek: ελάφι (eláfi) n., ζαρκάδι (zarkáði) n., δορκάδα (ðorkáða) (Gazella dorcas) f., άλκη (álci) (Cervus elaphus) f. Guaraní: guasu Hebrew: איל (ayal) m. Hungarian: szarvas hu(hu) Icelandic: hjörtur (krónhjörtur) Indonesian: kijang, rusa, menjangan Ineseño: wɨ Interlingua: cervo Irish: fia, fia rua Italian: cervo it(it) m., alce it(it) f., renna it(it) f., daino it(it) m., capriolo it(it) m. Japanese: 鹿 (しか, shika) Kurdish: ئاسک Ladin: cerf Lao: ຟານ (faan)

Latin: ceruus la(la), cervus la(la) m., cerva la(la) f. Latvian: briedis lv(lv) Lithuanian: elnias m., elnė f. Macedonian: елен (elen) Malayalam: മാൻ Maltese: ċerf (ċerf l-aħmar) Mapudungun: wemül Mi'kmaq: lentuk Mongolian: буга mn(mn) (buga) Nahuatl: mazatl Navajo: bįįh Norwegian: hjort no(no) Occitan: cèrvi Old Church Slavonic: [[ѥлєнь#Template:Cu|Template:Cyrs]] (jelenĭ) m. Old French: cerf m. Old Irish: [[fíad#Template:Sga|fíad]] Persian: گوزن (gavazn) Polish: jeleń pl(pl) m. Portuguese: veado pt(pt) m., cervo pt(pt) m. Quechua: taruka (Bolivia); taruca (Ecuador) Romani: cherbo m. Romanian: cerb ro(ro) m., ciută ro(ro) f., căprioară ro(ro) Romansch: tschierv Russian: олень (olén’) m. Sami: ruksesgoddi Sardinian: crebu, crefu, cherbu, chervu Scottish Gaelic: fiadh Serbian: jелен (jelen) m. Sicilian: cervu scn(scn) m. Sindarin: aras` Slovene: jelen sl(sl) m., košuta sl(sl) f. Spanish: ciervo m., venado m. (Latin America) Swedish: hjort sv(sv) Taos: pę́na Telugu: జింక (jimka) Thai: กวาง th(th) (kwaang) Turkish: geyik tr(tr) Turkmen: sugun Ukrainian: олень (olen’) m. Vietnamese: hươu vi(vi), nai vi(vi) Welsh: carw cy(cy) West Frisian: hart

meat from the animal

Basque: oreinki eu(eu) Chinese: Mandarin: 鹿肉 cmn(cmn) (lùròu)

Finnish: hirvi, hirvenliha, peura, peuranliha, kauris, kauriinliha, poro, poronliha Greek: ελάφι el(el) n. Russian: оленина ru(ru) (olenína) m.

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Tupi: swasu

Anagrams

• deer,
• dere, de re
• dree
• rede
• reed, Reed

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Etymology

From Germanic *deuzom, from Indo-European *dheusom. Cognate with English deer (Old English dēor), Dutch dier, German Tier, Swedish djur; and with Lithuanian dvēsti, Russian душа (dušá).

Noun

deer n

1. pet
2. (obsolete) beast, animal

Inflection

Inflection

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	deer	deer	deerke	deerkes
Genitive	deers	deer	deerkes	deerkes
Locative	daer	daer	daerke	daerkes
Dative¹	daerem	daerer	?	?
Accusative¹	deer	?	deerke	deerkes

• Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.

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