spar
Dutch (Brabantic)
/spɑr/
noun
Definitions
- spruce; certain tree of the family Pinaceae, especially of the genus Picea, but also used for trees of the genera Abies, Tsuga and Pseudotsuga.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch sparre (pole, beam, rafter) inherited from Old Dutch *sparro inherited from Frankish *sparro inherited from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (wooden beam, stake, log, beam).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*sparrô
Gloss
wooden beam, stake, log, beam
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- calcspar English
- microspar English
- multispar English
- spar English
- sparless English
- sparlike English
- sparrer English
- sparry English
- unspar English
- *(s)par- Proto-Indo-European
- *sparrô Proto-Germanic
- sparre Middle English
- sparri Old Norse
- sparre Middle Dutch
- *sparro Old Dutch
- *sparro Frankish
- spjir Western Frisian
- *sperra Old Frisian