Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A mark made by smearing. · A presentation of a sauce, purée or other food item, which is placed in a dollop and spread across the plate. · A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation. · A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.
To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing. · To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing. · To make something dirty. · (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
From Middle English smeren, smerien, from Old English smerian, smyrian, smierwan (“to anoint or rub with grease, oil, etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *smirwijan, from Proto-Germanic *smirwijaną. Doublet of schmear. Cognate with Saterland Frisian smeere, Dutch smeren (“to smear, lubricate”), Low German smeren, German schmieren (“to smear, lubricate”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål smøre (“to lubricate”), Norwegian Nynorsk smørja (“to lubricate”), Swedish smörja (“to grease”), Faroese and Icelandic smyrja.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionsmerenenm
- Inherited-form mentionsmerianang
- Inherited-form mention*smirwijangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*smirwijanągem-pro
- Doublet mentionschmearen
- Cognate mentionsmeerestq
- Cognate mentionsmerennl · to smear, lubricate
- Cognate mentionsmerennds
- Cognate mentionschmierende · to smear, lubricate
- Cognate mentionsmørjann · to lubricate
- Cognate mentionsmörjasv · to grease
This page abbreviates 12 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "smeren"
},
"expansion": "Middle English smeren"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "smerian"
},
"expansion": "Old English smerian"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*smirwijan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *smirwijan"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*smirwijaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *smirwijaną"
},
{
"name": "doublet",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "schmear"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of schmear"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "smeere"
},
"expansion": "Saterland Frisian smeere"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "smeren",
"t": "to smear, lubricate"
},
"expansion": "Dutch smeren (“to smear, lubricate”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "smeren"
},
"expansion": "Low German smeren"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "schmieren",
"t": "to smear, lubricate"
},
"expansion": "German schmieren (“to smear, lubricate”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "da,nb",
"2": "smøre",
"t": "to lubricate"
},
"expansion": "Danish and Norwegian Bokmål smøre (“to lubricate”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "smørja",
"t": "to lubricate"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian Nynorsk smørja (“to lubricate”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "smörja",
"t": "to grease"
},
"expansion": "Swedish smörja (“to grease”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "fo,is",
"2": "smyrja"
},
"expansion": "Faroese and Icelandic smyrja"
}
],
"links": [
[
"smeren",
"smeren#Middle_English"
],
[
"smerien",
"smerien#Middle_English"
],
[
"smerian",
"smerian#Old_English"
],
[
"smyrian",
"smyrian#Old_English"
],
[
"smierwan",
"smierwan#Old_English"
],
[
"*smirwijan",
"Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/smirwijan"
],
[
"*smirwijaną",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/smirwijaną"
],
[
"schmear",
"schmear#English"
],
[
"smeere",
"smeere#Saterland_Frisian"
],
[
"smeren",
"smeren#Dutch"
],
[
"smeren",
"smeren#Low_German"
],
[
"schmieren",
"schmieren#German"
],
[
"Danish",
"smøre#Danish"
],
[
"smøre",
"smøre#Norwegian_Bokmål"
],
[
"smørja",
"smørja#Norwegian_Nynorsk"
],
[
"smörja",
"smörja#Swedish"
],
[
"Faroese",
"smyrja#Faroese"
],
[
"smyrja",
"smyrja#Icelandic"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "noun",
"glosses": [
"A mark made by smearing.",
"A presentation of a sauce, purée or other food item, which is placed in a dollop and spread across the plate.",
"A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.",
"A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"recordId": "8207fcda68920a40d08daa3d95ed78b7b6ee3479d5b7f3a556d3c07830946875",
"rawRecordSha256": "268ef3dc6f25874ec5ff2494f4665f3f800f54dea6a57fdddd16e607dba0894b",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 370983
},
{
"pos": "verb",
"glosses": [
"To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.",
"To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.",
"To make something dirty.",
"(of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"recordId": "b83bcb056bcde6679f1cdb36eb2576457502fe1f796103bb7e341319e4d5687b",
"rawRecordSha256": "b5206fd6995100bfb5550d1f148e1179b1401b1ce5d7ad065aaf00ab101f6422",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 370982
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 12,
"glosses": 0
}
}