bærs
Middle English
Noun
bærs
- (Early Middle English) alternative form of bace
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *bars, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”, literally “prickly”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bærs/, [bærˠs]
Noun
bærs m
- perch (fish)
Declension
Strong a-stem:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | bærs | bærsas |
| accusative | bærs | bærsas |
| genitive | bærses | bærsa |
| dative | bærse | bærsum |
Descendants
References
- Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “bærs”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.