spear

(Engels)

Noun

1. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
2. (historical) A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
3. A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
4. An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
5. In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
6. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
7. The feather of a horse.
8. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
9. A long, thin strip from a vegetable.

Verb

1. (transitive) To pierce with a spear.
2. (broadly, transitive) To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
3. To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
4. (intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
5. (especially, obsolete, transitive) To ignore as a social snub.

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Male.
2. (not-comparable) Pertaining to male family members.

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/spɪə̯(ɹ)/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: spere

Overgenomen van Oudengels: spere

Verwant aan Fries: spear

Verwant aan Nederlands: speer

Verwant aan Duits: Speer

Verwant aan Oudnoors: spjǫr

Verwant aan Middelnederlands: sparre

Verwant aan Oudnoors: sparri

Verwant aan Latijn: sparus

Verwant aan Albanees: ferrë

Overgenomen van Middelengels: spyre

Overgenomen van Oudengels: spīr

In summary

From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, German Speer, Old Norse spjǫr, *sparrô, Middle Dutch sparre (“rafter”), Old Norse sparri (“spar, rafter”), sperra (“rafter, beam”); also Latin sparus (“short spear”), Albanian ferrë (“thorn, thornbush”).

Concepten

speer

lans

spies

spiets

piek

harpoeneren

doorsteken

hellebaard

spriet

geer

Reims

Synoniemen

lance

javelin

pierce

stab

pike

dart

🎯

harpoon

weapon

poke

prick

shaft

sting

shoot

inject

fizgig

thrust

leister

impale

bayonet

sew

gore

gig

arrow

fork

fish spear

nail

border upon

fishgig

spit

spear up

sword

touch

sprout

staff

war

halberd

puncture

punch

👊

spike

forge

bore

flag

boat hook

awl

fish-fork

bite

drill

knife

🔪

dismiss

beg

Vertalingen

lance

Speer

lancia

lanza

lança

włócznia

javelot

Lanze

llança

Spieß

mızrak

javelina

hasta

λόγχη

δόρυ