different between dere vs derf

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dere, from Old English dæru, daru (“injury, hurt, harm, damage, calamity; loss, deprivation”), from Proto-West Germanic *daru, from Proto-Germanic *dar? (“damage, injury”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?órh?-eh?, from *d?erh?- (“to leap, spring”).

Cognate with Middle Dutch dare, dere, Low German dere, Old High German tara, Avestan ????????????????? (d?r?), Sanskrit ???? (dh??r?).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??/
• Homophones: dear, deer

Noun

dere (plural deres)

1. (Britain dialectal) Hurt; harm; injury.

   She did him dere.

Etymology 2

From Middle English deren, derien, from Old English derian (“to damage, injure, hurt, harm”), from Proto-West Germanic *darjan (“to injure, harm”), from Proto-Indo-European *d??(w)- (“to sharpen”). Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“to harm, hurt, injure”), Saterland Frisian dera (“to injure, damage”), West Frisian deare, derre (“to harm, injure”), Dutch deren (“to injure, damage, scathe”), Middle High German tern (“to injure”). Related to dart.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??/
• Homophones: dear, deer

Verb

dere (third-person singular simple present deres, present participle dering, simple past and past participle dered)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
   • c.1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:

     And of Achilles with his queynte spere, / For he koude with it bothe heele and dere […].
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To annoy, trouble, grieve.

Derived terms

• dering

Etymology 3

Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.

Alternative forms

• der

Pronunciation

• (AAVE, NYC) IPA^(key): /d??(?)/
• (Ulster English) IPA^(key): /d???(?)/
• (Midlands) IPA^(key): /d???(?)/
• (rural areas of Scotland, rare) IPA^(key): /d?i??/
• Homophone: dare (some accents)

Adverb

dere (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Interjection

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Noun

dere (uncountable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Pronoun

dere

1. Pronunciation spelling of there.

Anagrams

• Rede, Reed, deer, dree, rede, reed

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?r?]

Verb

dere

1. third-person singular present of drát

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?r?

Verb

dere

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of deren

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse þér, ér, from a variant of Proto-Germanic *j?z, from Proto-Indo-European *y??.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?de???/
• Rhymes: -e?r?

Pronoun

dere (objective case dere)

1. (personal) you (2nd person plural subject pronoun)

See also

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

dere (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person singular present of derati

Slovene

Verb

dere

1. third-person singular present of dreti

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian ???? (darre).

Noun

dere

1. valley

Declension

References

• dere in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

Welsh

Alternative forms

• tyrd (North Wales)
• tyred (North Wales, literary)

Pronunciation

• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?d?r?/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?de?r?/, /?d?r?/

Verb

dere

1. (South Wales) second-person singular imperative of dod

Mutation

Zazaki

Etymology

From Persian ???? (darre).

Noun

dere ?

1. valley

English

Etymology

From Middle English derf (“bold, daring, strong”), from Old English dearf, deorf (“bold”), from Proto-Germanic *derbaz. Cognate with Danish djærv (“bold”), Faroese djarvur (“bold”), Icelandic djarfur (“bold”), Norwegian djerv (“bold”), Swedish djärv (“bold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?f/

Adjective

derf (comparative more derf, superlative most derf)

1. (obsolete) strong; powerful; fierce

Derived terms

• derfly

References

• bosworthtoller.com
• The Middle English Dictionary
• An historical dictionary

Anagrams

• Fred, ferd