Wt/sco/poor
Scots[edit | edit source]
Verb[edit | edit source]
- (transitive) Tae cause tae flowe in a stream, as a liquid or onything flowin lik a liquid, either oot o a veshel or intae it.
Noon[edit | edit source]
- (colloquial) A stream, or something lik a stream; especially a fluid o precipitation.
Inglis[edit | edit source]
Etymology[edit | edit source]
Frae Middle Inglis povre, povere, frae Old French (an Anglo-Norman) povre, poure (Modren French pauvre), frae Laitin pauper (Inglis pauper), frae Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), frae Proto-Indo-European *ph₁w- (“smawness”). Cognate wi Old English fēawa (“little, few”). Displaced native Middle Inglis earm, arm (“poor”) (frae Old English earm; See arm), Middle Inglis wantsum, wantsome (“puir, needy”) (frae Old Norse vant (“deficiency, lack, want”), Middle Inglis unlede (“puir”) (frae Old English unlǣde, Middle Inglis unweli, unwely (“puir, unwalthy”) (frae Old English un- + weliġ (“well-tae-dae, prosperous, rich”).
Pronunciation[edit | edit source]
- (Australie) IPA(key): /poː/
- (Received Pronunciation)
- (US)
- Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones: pour, pore (wi the pour-poor merger)
- Homophone: paw (in some non-rhotic accents) (wi the pour-poor merger)
Adjective[edit | edit source]
poor (comparative Wt/sco/poorer, superlative Wt/sco/poorest)
- puir in quality or walth
Limburgish[edit | edit source]
Etymology[edit | edit source]
Noun[edit | edit source]
poor m
Auld French[edit | edit source]
Noun[edit | edit source]
poor f (oblique plural Wt/sco/poors, nominative singular Wt/sco/poor, nominative plural Wt/sco/poors)