biere
See also: Biere, biére, bière, and Bière
Franc-Comtois
Noun
biere f
- beer
German
Verb
biere
- inflection of bieren:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Middle French
Etymology 1
From Old French biere, from Old Dutch *bior or Old High German bior, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *beuzą.
Noun
biere f (plural bieres)
- beer (alcoholic drink)
Descendants
- French: bière
- → Abenaki: labial (from "la bière")
- → Khmer: ប៊ីយេរ (biiyɛɛ)
- → Lao: ເບຍ (bīa)
- → Vietnamese: bia
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *berô.
Noun
biere f (plural bieres)
- bier (cart used to transport cadavers)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (biere, supplement)
Old French
Etymology 1
From Old Dutch *bior, from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą. Alternatively, from Old High German bior, from the same Germanic source.
Noun
biere f (oblique plural bieres, nominative singular biere, nominative plural bieres)
- beer (alcoholic drink)
Descendants
- Middle French: biere
- French: bière
- → Abenaki: labial (from "la bière")
- → Khmer: ប៊ីយេរ (biiyɛɛ)
- → Lao: ເບຍ (bīa)
- → Vietnamese: bia
- French: bière
- Norman: biéthe
Etymology 2
Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *berō.
Noun
biere f (oblique plural bieres, nominative singular biere, nominative plural bieres)
- bier (cart used to transport cadavers)
- a casket for cadavers
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (biere, supplement)