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laars

Meaning

laarzen

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/laːrs/
Etymology

In summary

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.

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