peer

(Αγγλικός)

Συχνότητα

C2
Προφέρεται ως (IPA)
/pɪə̯/
Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

In summary

From Middle English peren, pyren, piren (“to peer, gaze”), perhaps from Old English *pȳran (“to look, peer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan (“to look”), related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“to look”), Dutch Low Saxon piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”), Middle English pouren (“to gaze, look closely”), English pore (“to study meticulously”). Compare also West Frisian pluere (“to peer”), Dutch pluren (“to gaze squintingly”), German Low German plieren (“to blink”), Danish plire (“to peer”), Swedish plira, blira (“to peer”), and thence ultimately related to the root of English blear. The sense meaning "to be visible" is perhaps from a shortening of appear.

Related words

αριστοκράτησ

ομότιμος

αδιάκριτα

προβάλλω

ίσος

ευπατρίδης

ισάξιος

περιεργάζομαι

συνομήλικος

όμοιος

βλέπω

συνηλικιώτης

ευγενής

φαίνομαι

Sign in to write sticky notes
External links