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dyr

Pronunciation: /dyːˀɐ̯/

“dyr” is a Danish word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. animal, beast (as opposed to human beings, or of human beings acting brutally)
  2. animal (a member of Animalia)
  3. deer (a mammal of the family Cervidae)

adjective

  1. expensive
  2. dear, prized

Etymology

From Old East Norse diūʀ, from Proto-Norse *ᛞᛖᚢᛉᚨ (*deuʀa), from Proto-Germanic *deuzą. Cognate with Swedish djur, English deer, German Tier, Dutch dier.

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