different between camel vs deer

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæm?l/
• Rhymes: -æm?l
• Hyphenation: ca?mel

Etymology 1

From Middle English camel, through Old Northern French camel (Old French chamel, modern French chameau), from Latin cam?lus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (kám?los), from a Semitic source, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-; compare Arabic ?????? (jamal) and Hebrew ???? (gamál).

Noun

camel (plural camels)

1. A beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus.

   Synonym: (India (Anglo-Indian), Australia, colloquial) oont

2. A light brownish color, like that of a camel (also called camel brown).

3. Loaded vessels lashed tightly, one on each side of another vessel, and then emptied to reduce the draught of the ship in the middle.

Coordinate terms

• (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña ^{(Category: en:Camelids)}

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Coeur d'Alene: keemel

Translations

See also

Adjective

camel (not comparable)

1. Of a light brown color like that of a camel.
   • 1999, New Woman, volume 29, page 212:

     […] try to select accessories that are in the same color family as your coat," says millinery designer Patricia Underwood. To pick up the weave of a brown tweed jacket, for instance, choose a camel hat and black gloves.

Etymology 2

From Afrikaans kameel

Noun

camel (plural camels)

2. (South Africa, obsolete) Synonym of giraffe

Further reading

• camel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Malec, calme, macle

Middle English

Alternative forms

• camelle, kamel, kamell, camell, cammel, camayle, camaile, camaille, cameylle, camele
• (From Central Old French) chamel, chamayle, schamelle, chamelle, chamell, chamoil

Etymology

From Old Northern French camel, cameil, from Latin cam?lus. Some forms are from or influenced by Old French chamel, chamoil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kam?l/, /kam???l/, /kam??i?l/
• (From Central Old French) IPA^(key): /?t?am?l/, /t?am???l/, /t?am??i?l/

Noun

camel (plural cameles)

1. camel (mammal of the genus Camelus)

Descendants

• English: camel
• Scots: camel

References

• “cam??l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-1.

Old French

Etymology

See chamel.

Noun

camel m (oblique plural cameus, nominative singular cameus, nominative plural camel)

1. (Old Northern French, Anglo-Norman) camel

Tocharian B

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Compare Tocharian A cmol.

Noun

camel ?

1. birth

English

Etymology

From Middle English deere, dere, der, dier, deor (“small animal, deer”), from Old English d?or (“animal”), from Proto-West Germanic *deu?, from Proto-Germanic *deuz?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewsóm (“living thing”), from *d?éws (“breath”), full-grade derivative of *d?wes-.

Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“deer”), North Frisian dier (“animal, beast”), West Frisian dier (“animal, beast”), Dutch dier (“animal, beast”), German Low German Deer, Deert (“animal”), German Tier (“animal, beast”), Swedish djur (“animal, beast”), Norwegian dyr (“animal”), Icelandic dýr (“animal, beast”).

Related also to Albanian dash (“ram”) (possibly), Lithuanian da?sos (“upper air; heaven”), Lithuanian dùsti (“to sigh”), Russian ????? (dušá, “breath, spirit”), Lithuanian dv?sti (“to breathe, exhale”), Sanskrit ??????? (dhva?sati, “he falls to dust”).

For the semantic development compare Latin anim?lis (“animal”), from anima (“breath, spirit”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??/
• (Scotland, some US) IPA^(key): /di??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: dear, dir

Noun

deer (plural deer or (nonstandard) deers)

1. A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla.
2. (in particular) One of the smaller animals of this family, distinguished from a moose or elk

3. The meat of such an animal; venison.

4. (obsolete, except in the phrase "small deer") Any animal, especially a quadrupedal mammal as opposed to a bird, fish, etc.
   • 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III. IV

     But mice and rats and such small deer, have been Tom's food for seven long year.

Hyponyms

• buck, stag (male deer); doe, hind (female deer); fawn (young deer); hart (adult deer)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: dia

Translations

Anagrams

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?r

Verb

deer

1. first-person singular present indicative of deren
2. imperative of deren

Hunsrik

Alternative forms

• tëyer (Wiesemann spelling system)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?te??/

Etymology 1

From Middle High German and Old High German ir. Compare Luxembourgish dir.

Pronoun

deer

1. you (plural)

Inflection

Etymology 2

Pronoun

deer

1. stressed dative of du.

Inflection

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch dier, from Old Dutch dier, from Proto-Germanic *deuz?.

Noun

deer n

1. pet
2. (obsolete) beast, animal

Inflection

• The dative and accusative are obsolete nowadays; use the nominative instead.

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian d?r, th?r, from Proto-West Germanic *þ?r. More at there.

Adverb

deer

1. there