Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Clean; completely; at once.
Very thin or transparent. · Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated. · Downright; complete; pure. · Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
A sheer curtain or fabric.
From Middle English shere, scheere, schere, skere, from Old English sċǣre (“pure, sheer; shining, clear”), from Proto-Germanic *skairiz; supplanted the semantically close shire (dialectal), from Middle English schyre, schire, shire, shir, from Old English sċīr (“clear, bright; brilliant, gleaming, shining, splendid, resplendent; pure”), beside which existed Middle English skyr, from Old Norse skírr (“pure, bright, clear”), both from Proto-Germanic *skīriz (“pure, sheer”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₁y- (“luster, gloss, shadow”). Cognate with Danish skær, German schier (“sheer”), German Low German schier (“sheer, pure, unadulterated”; “completely, almost”), Dutch schier (“almost”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐍃 (skeirs, “clear, lucid”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Albanian hir (“grace, beauty; goodwill”).
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- Inherited-form mentionshereenm
- Inherited-form mentionsċǣreang · pure, sheer; shining, clear
- Inherited-form mention*skairizgem-pro
- Inherited-form mentionschyreenm
- Inherited-form mentionsċīrang · clear, bright; brilliant, gleaming, shining, splendid, resplendent; pure
- Inherited-form mentionskyrenm
- Derivation mentionskírrnon · pure, bright, clear
- Inherited-form mention*skīrizgem-pro · pure, sheer
- Derivation mention*(s)ḱeh₁y-ine-pro · luster, gloss, shadow
- Cognate mentionskærda
- Cognate mentionschierde · sheer
- Cognate mentionschiernl · almost
- Cognate mention𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐍃got · clear, lucid
- Cognate mentionhirsq · grace, beauty; goodwill
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