dere

dere · noun¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*dʰórh₃-eh₂
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*darō“damage, injury”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*daru
4. Old English · inherited fromdæru
5. Middle English · inherited fromdere
6. English todaydere

From Middle English dere, from Old English dæru, daru (“injury, hurt, harm, damage, calamity; loss, deprivation”), from Proto-West Germanic *daru, from Proto-Germanic *darō (“damage, injury”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰórh₃-eh₂, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”). Cognate with Middle Dutch dare, dere, Low German dere, Old High German tara, Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬭𐬁 (dārā), Sanskrit धारा (dhā́rā).

dere · verb²

1. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*dʰerh₃-“to leap, spring”
2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*darjan“to injure, harm”
3. Old English · inherited fromderian“to damage, injure, hurt, harm”
4. Middle English · inherited fromderen
5. English todaydere

From Middle English deren, from Old English derian (“to damage, injure, hurt, harm”), from Proto-West Germanic *darjan (“to injure, harm”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”). Cognate with 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.

dere · adverb, interjection, noun, pronoun³

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

Words from the same roots