different between stoor vs spoor

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /st??/

Etymology 1

From Middle English storen, *sturien, from Old English *storian, variant of styrian (“to stir, move”), from Proto-Germanic *stur?n? (“to turn, disturb”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with Dutch storen (“to disturb”), Middle Low German stören (“to stir”), German stören (“to disturb”), dialectal German sturen (“to poke, root”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian shtir (“to ford, wade across”). See stir.

Alternative forms

• stour

Verb

stoor (third-person singular simple present stoors, present participle stooring, simple past and past participle stoored)

1. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To move; stir.
2. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To move actively; keep stirring.
3. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc.
4. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To stir up, as liquor.
5. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high.
6. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To sprinkle.

Noun

stoor (plural stoors)

1. (Britain dialectal) Stir; bustle; agitation; contention.
2. (Britain dialectal) A gush of water.
3. (Britain dialectal) Spray.
4. (Britain dialectal) A sufficient quantity of yeast for brewing.

Derived terms

• stoorey
• stoory

Etymology 2

See stour.

Adjective

stoor (comparative stoorer or more stoor, superlative stoorest or most stoor)

1. Alternative form of stour

Derived terms

• stoorness

Anagrams

• Sorto, Toors, ostro, roost, roots, rotos, toros, torso

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from English store.

Verb

stoor (present stoor, present participle stoorende, past participle gestoor)

1. (transitive) to store, to storage
2. (transitive, intransitive) to save, to make a savestate (of)

Noun

stoor (plural [please provide])

1. shop, store
2. storage, saving

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sto?r/
• Rhymes: -o?r

Verb

stoor

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

Anagrams

• soort

Middle English

Adjective

stoor

1. Alternative spelling of stour (large)

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Any dates and refs for this?”)From Afrikaans spoor, from Dutch spoor, akin to Old English and Old Norse spor (whence Danish spor), and German Spur, all from Proto-Germanic *spur?. Compare spurn.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sp??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sp??/, /sp??/
• Homophones: spore (in some accents)

Noun

spoor (usually uncountable, plural spoors)

1. The track, trail, droppings or scent of an animal
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII

     Even poor Nobs appeared dejected as we quit the compound and set out upon the well-marked spoor of the abductor.

   • 1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 10

     Now he has picked up the spoor of drunken vomit and there is the doll sprawled against a wall, his pants streaked with urine.

Translations

Verb

spoor (third-person singular simple present spoors, present participle spooring, simple past and past participle spoored)

1. (transitive) To track an animal by following its spoor

Anagrams

• proso, roops, sopor, sporo-

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spo?r/
• Hyphenation: spoor
• Rhymes: -o?r

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch spor, from Old Dutch *spor, from Proto-Germanic *spur?, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.

Noun

spoor n (plural sporen, diminutive spoortje n)

1. track
2. railway track
3. trace
4. spoor
5. lead, trail, clue

Derived terms

• smalspoor
• spoorbaan
• spoorloos
• spoorweg
• treinspoor
• voetspoor
• opsporen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: spoor
  • ? English: spoor
• ? Javanese: sepur
  • Indonesian: sepur (“train”)
• ? Indonesian: sepur (“railway track”)

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch spore, from Old Dutch *sporo from Proto-Germanic *spurô, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.

Noun

spoor f (plural sporen, diminutive spoortje n)

1. spur
2. spore

Derived terms

• sporen

Middle English

Noun

spoor

1. Alternative form of spore