Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A ruminant mammal with hooves and often antlers, of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla, such as the musk deer or mouse deer. · Such a mammal that is in the family Cervidae. · One of the smaller animals of the family Cervidae, distinguished from a moose or elk. · The meat of such an animal, obtained through the process of hunting or from specialized deer farms; venison.
From Middle English der, deer (“animal, deer”), from Old English dēor (“animal”), from Proto-West Germanic *deuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *deuzą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewsóm (“living thing”), from *dʰéws (“breath”), full-grade derivative of *dʰwes-. Cognate with Scots deer (“deer”), North Frisian dier (“animal, beast”), West Frisian dier (“animal, beast”), Dutch dier (“animal, beast”), German Low German Deer, Deert (“animal”), German Tier (“animal, beast”), Swedish djur (“animal, beast”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk dyr (“animal, beast”), Icelandic dýr (“animal, beast”). Related also to Albanian dash (“ram”) (possibly), Lithuanian daũsos (“upper air; heaven”), Lithuanian dùsti (“to sigh”), Russian душа́ (dušá, “breath, spirit”), Lithuanian dvė̃sti (“to breathe, exhale”), Sanskrit ध्वंसति (dhvaṃsati, “he falls to dust”). For the semantic development compare Latin animālis (“animal”), from anima (“breath, spirit”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionderenm
- Inherited-form mentiondēorang
- Inherited-form mention*deuʀgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*deuzągem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*dʰewsómine-pro · living thing
- Cognate mentiondeersco · deer
- Cognate mentiondierfrr · animal, beast
- Cognate mentiondierfy · animal, beast
- Cognate mentiondiernl · animal, beast
- Cognate mentionTierde · animal, beast
- Cognate mentiondjursv · animal, beast
- Cognate mentiondýris · animal, beast
- Cognate mentiondashsq · ram
- Cognate mentiondaũsoslt · upper air; heaven
- Cognate mentiondùstilt · to sigh
- Cognate mentionдуша́ru · breath, spirit
- Cognate mentiondvė̃stilt · to breathe, exhale
- Cognate mentionध्वंसतिsa · he falls to dust
- Cognate mentionanimālisla · animal
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