leer
Meaning
-
leather
Concepts
leather
doctrine
hide
apprenticeship
teaching
ladder
theory
tenet
doctrinaire
creed
egalitarianism
ism
philosophies
philosophy
meme
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/leːr/
Etymology
From leder through regular syncope of intervocalic -d- (compare weer, blij, la), from Middle Dutch leder, from Old Dutch *lether, from Proto-West Germanic *leþr, from Proto-Germanic *leþrą.
New
leren
-
- (intransitive,transitive) to learn, to study
- (transitive) to teach
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